prothoracicotropic hormone

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prothoracicotropic hormone (plural prothoracicotropic hormones)

  1. (biology) A peptide hormone found in insects, produced in the copora cardiaca or corpus allata, which initiates the release of the ecdysteroid hormone from the prothoracic gland.
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