Growth response for growth hormone/GH/replacement therapy

Growth of short children born small for gestational age and their response to growth hormone therapy.

Growth hormone [GH] is licensed for use in children born small for gestational age (SGA) who fail to catch-up. We retrospectively compared the response of twenty children born SGA (who satisfied the auxological criteria) to growth hormone (Group I) versus randomly selected age and sex matched controls from a group of SGA children with growth related complaints, not treated with GH (Group II). A...

Growth hormone receptor polymorphism and growth hormone therapy response in children: a Bayesian meta-analysis.

Recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) therapy is used in the long-term treatment of children with growth disorders, but there is considerable treatment response variability. The exon 3-deleted growth hormone receptor polymorphism (GHR(d3)) may account for some of this variability. The authors performed a systematic review (to April 2011), including investigator-only data, to quantify the effe...

Turner syndrome and growth hormone therapy: a review on growth response

Results The mean age of initiation of therapy was 11.5 ± 3.4 and 55.0% were started after the age of 12 years. The mean height standard deviation score (SDS) increased from -3.84 (±0.94) SD at study entry to -3.47 (±0.97) SD at the end of the first year. This improvement was seen with subsequent year of treatment, though the degree of change in height SDS reduced with time. Age of initiation of...

Assessing growth and response to therapy in murine tumor models.

Rodent models provide an important means of assessing antitumor activity vs toxicity for new cancer therapies. Tumors are often grown subcutaneously on the flank or back of animals, allowing accurate serial determination of tumor volume with calipers by measuring the tumors in three dimensions. The advantages of assessing tumor volume in subcutaneous tumors must be balanced against the potentia...

Quantitative analysis of tumor growth and response to therapy