Hormones, Blood Products, and Therapeutic Enzymes.

Therapeutic uses of biological medicines are diverse and include active substances from different classes. This chapter provides an overview on the clinical applications of biological medicines containing hormones, blood products, and therapeutic enzymes. Currently, therapeutic hormones have 78 approved medicines, including insulin and analogs, glucagon and analogs, growth hormone, gonadotropins (follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, and human chorionic gonadotropin), thyroid-stimulating hormone, and parathyroid hormone.