COMPOSITION FOR PROMOTING GROWTH COMPRISING COUMARIC ACID

摘要

The present invention relates to a growth promotion effect of coumaric acid and, more specifically, to a pharmaceutical composition for promoting growth, a food composition, and an animal feed composition, which contain coumaric acid as an active ingredient. The composition comprising coumaric acid as an active ingredient of the present invention has an effect of promoting growth by promoting chondrocyte proliferation and growth hormone secretion, 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 using the composition of the present invention alone or in combination with growth hormone therapy.