lipolytic hormones

lipolytic hormones
hormones that promote the degradation of triacylglycerols to diacylglycerols, monoacylglycerols, glycerols, and fatty acids; they include the catecholamines, glucagon, growth hormone, and (in high levels only) corticotropin and thyroid-stimulating hormone. Called also fat-mobilizing h's.

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