Pituitary hormone, target
and function

  
Hormone - GH
Growth Hormone
Target - All cells in the body
Function
Growth hormone stimulates the bones and other organs to grow. It also regulates how cells utilize glucose and fat, and stimulates the liver to manufacture another hormone, called "insulin-like growth factor 1" or IGF-1.

IGF-1 has a number of functions, and one is to stimulate bone growth.
 
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