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Growth hormone axis

Somatropin

Also called rhGH, Genotropin, Norditropin

InjectableEvidence AEvery day
Half-life
3hours
Typical vial
5 / 10 / 15mg
Research amounts
0.2–0.4mg

per administration

Common schedule
Every day
Tested in people

A human trial worked out how much to take and how often, so a dosing schedule is shown.

Licensed as a medicine in the US and EU.

Work out your draw

These numbers are a starting point — change any of them.

3 mL cartridge · 100 units loaded4units dialled
Concentration
5mg/mL
Volume per draw
0.04mL
Units to dial
4
Doses per cartridge
25

Vial label

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Published research contexts for Somatropin describe 0.20.4 mg per administration. Descriptive only, not a recommendation.

About 2–4 hours after subcutaneous injection; absorption-limited.

A recombinant 191-amino-acid growth hormone; adult replacement is individualized and titrated to IGF-1 rather than run as a fixed escalation, so a single maintenance row is shown rather than a step-up table.

Dosing schedule

How Somatropin is commonly stepped up, for reference only.

These are commonly-discussed research protocols shared for educational reference. This is not medical advice and is not a substitute for guidance from a qualified professional.

PhaseAmountFrequencyRoute
MaintenanceAdult replacement is individualized and titrated to IGF-1; a recombinant 191-amino-acid protein hormone, not a peptide fragment.0.2–0.4 mgOnce dailySubQ

Modelled level — every day

1× is the peak after a single dose.

Steady-state peak
1.00× single dose

Read off the modelled curve, not an even-interval formula

Time to steady state
15hours

About five half-lives

Administrations
7/ week

Where these numbers come from

  • Somatropin (recombinant human growth hormone) product literatureA licensed 191-amino-acid recombinant growth hormone; adult replacement is individualized and titrated to IGF-1.

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