Human growth hormone: Shortage persists

Pulsatile growth hormone secretion persists in genetic growth hormone-releasing hormone resistance.

Growth hormone (GH) secretion is regulated by GH-releasing hormone (GHRH), somatostatin, and possibly ghrelin, but uncertainty remains about the relative contributions of these hypophysiotropic factors to GH pulsatility. Patients with genetic GHRH receptor (GHRH-R) deficiency present an opportunity to examine GH secretory dynamics in the selective absence of GHRH input. We studied circadian GH ...

Human growth hormone (UK).

Human Growth Hormone

1. Children with proven growth hormone deficiency (GHD) 2. Children with height less than 3rd percentile for chronologic age with chronic renal insufficiency 3. Patients with AIDS wasting 4. Adults with proven GHD 5. Patients with Turner’s syndrome 6. Children with growth failure due to Prader-Willi syndrome 7. Patients with short stature due to Noonan syndrome 8. Promotion of wound healing in ...

Studies with human growth hormone.

Let me tell you at the outset of my appreciation of the great honour you have done me in asking me to deliver the first Lawson Wilkins Memorial Lecture. I accepted this invitation with eagerness because I cherish any link that binds Lawson Wilkins' life and work to mine. I often turn to the page in the second edition of his great textbook in which he proudly listed the 31 Associates and Fellows...

[Radioimmunoassay for human growth hormone].

Detailedmethodsfor: (1) 1311 iodination of human growth hormone (HGH); (2) purification of labeled HGH (HGH-139); and (3) radioimmunoassay of HGH are given. Bio-GeI filtration is introduced as a rapid and reproducible method for purifying HGH-1311which hasbeenobtainedby a modificationof the methodof Greenwood at al. (1). Highlypurified HGH-’311 with a bindability of 96% or more is usually achie...