User:Diberri/Peptide hormone nomenclature

In 1975, the IUPAC-IUB provided some nomenclature recommendations for peptide hormones. Though not all in widespread use, they do crop up every so often, and so it's worth mentioning alternative names where appropriate.

General guidelines
In brief, the general guidelines are:


 * 1) new names for hormones of the adenohypophysis bear the ending "-tropin";
 * 2) hypothalamic releasing factors (releasing hormones) bear the ending "-liberin";
 * 3) hypothalamic release-inhibiting factors (inhibiting hormones) bear the ending "-statin"

Peptide hormone trivial names
Below is a necessarily exclusive list of peptide hormones and their trivial names.

External link

 * IUPAC-IUB Peptide hormone nomenclature