由细菌合成的人类生长激素(HGH)在伦敦一家儿童医院首次临床试用。这种激素是旧金山市美国“基因组合”公司生产的,由儿童卫生发展部Tanner教授主管这项试验。有二十名儿童将参加试验,其中十名是青春前期儿童,试用期是一年。目前治疗垂体功能减退性侏儒症是给肌肉注射从人脑垂体中提取的生长激素。在英 Human Growth Hormone (HGH) synthesized by bacteria was first clinical trial at a Children’s Hospital in London. The hormones are produced by the San Francisco-based GeneChart Organization, led by Professor Tanner of the Department of Child Health Development. Twenty children will participate in the trial, of which ten are adolescent children and have a probationary period of one year. The current treatment of pituitary dysfunction dwarfism is to intramuscular injection of human pituitary extract of growth hormone. In English