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Somatropin
Human growth hormone made with recombinant DNA technology in bacteria (the first recombinant versions arrived in 1985): it is used for GH deficiency in children and adults, Turner syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome and chronic kidney failure. This family brings together other impurities.
Did you know?Before recombinant DNA the hormone was extracted from human pituitary glands: in the late 1950s Maurice Raben purified enough of it to treat a GH-deficient boy for the first time.
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EDQM standards 1
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.