COMPOSITION FOR GROWTH PROMOTION, CONTAINING COUMARIC ACID AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT

摘要

The present invention relates to a growth promotion effect of coumaric acid and, more specifically, to a pharmaceutical composition, a food composition, and an animal feed composition, which are for growth promotion and contain coumaric acid as an active ingredient. The composition containing coumaric acid as an active ingredient, of the present invention, promotes chondrocyte proliferation and growth hormone secretion, thereby finally having an effect of promoting growth, and thus the composition of the present invention is effective in not only growth and skeletal formation of growing children and adolescents, but also height growth therapy by being used alone or in combination with growth hormone therapy.