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Following the discovery of human growth hormone (hGH) in 1956 and proof of its effectiveness as a therapeutic agent for hypopituitarism in 1958, there developed an urgent need to obtain human pituitary glands at autopsy. Individual parents sought liaison with cooperating pathologists. Investigators tried to establish their own collection programs to meet the needs of their patients. By the early 1960s, it became evident that there was urgent need for a single national program which would organize the collection of all human pituitaries, arrange for the extraction and purification of hGH, and then distribute this to individual programs throughout the United States.
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Raiti, S. (1986). The National Hormone and Pituitary Program. In: Raiti, S., Tolman, R.A. (eds) Human Growth Hormone. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7201-5_1
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