Guerra Gómez, JoaquínDevesa Múgica, Jesús2021-03-122021-03-122021Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22(6), 2829; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22062829http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24705Growth hormone (GH) plays an important role in auditory development during the embryonic stage. Exogenous agents such as sound, noise, drugs or trauma, can induce the release of this hormone to perform a protective function and stimulate other mediators that protect the auditory pathway. In addition, GH deficiency conditions hearing loss or central auditory processing disorders. There are promising animal studies that reflect a possible regenerative role when exogenous GH is used in hearing impairments, demonstrated in in vivo and in vitro studies, and also, even a few studies show beneficial effects in humans presented and substantiated in the main text, although they should not exaggerate the main conclusionseng© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Atribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Growth hormoneIGF-ICentral auditory processingHearing impairmentHereditary hearing lossGH deficiencyjournal article10.3390/ijms220628291422-0067open access