Cynara, genus Cynara - artichoke; cardoon. vegetable - any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
Graft-versus-host disease. Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is a medical complication following the receipt of transplanted tissue from a genetically different person. GvHD is commonly associated with stem cell transplant (bone marrow transplant), but the term also applies to other forms of tissue graft.
synthesis of the hormone to its growth-pro-moting action (1, 2). GHD can occur either asan isolated entity or in combination with otherpituitary hormone deficiencies (MPHD) (1, 2).The most common form of GHD is the idio-pathic type (1). It has been postulated that hy-pothalamic or pituitary damage could be a re-sult of head trauma at birth (1, 7).