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Growth hormone

Growth hormone is a signal from a small gland just below your brain. Your body releases most of it during sleep, and it helps you grow taller.

Growth hormone: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P01241, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

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Fun fact

You make the most growth hormone during deep sleep at night.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P01241. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P01241.

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