Urinary growth hormone excretion.

Urinary growth hormone excretion.

Increase in urinary growth hormone excretion in puberty.

During the pubertal years the overnight urinary excretion rate of growth hormone (hGHu) increases to three to four times the prepubertal rate, reaching a peak in girls at 13 years and in boys at 15 years. After puberty the mean rate of overnight hGHu is twice that before puberty.

Urinary growth hormone excretion as a screening test for growth hormone deficiency.

Overnight urinary growth hormone secretion was measured by an immunoradiometric assay incorporating commercially available reagents, in 41 normal prepubertal school-children from three age groups: 3-5 years, 6-7 years, and 9-10 years. There was no significant difference between the groups expressing the results as total microU/specimen and so they have been combined to provide a prepubertal ref...

Urinary growth hormone estimation in diagnosing severe growth hormone deficiency.

Urinary growth hormone was measured in 54 children with short stature who had growth hormone deficiency that was initially diagnosed pharmacologically (arginine and L-dopa) and physiologically (mean growth hormone concentration during sleep evaluated twice). Based on the growth hormone response to pharmacological tests the subjects were subdivided into three groups: group A, 20 subjects with no...

Aging and urinary excretion of epidermal growth factor.

The aging process in man leads to some loss of kidney mass and function. The kidney produces epidermal growth factor (EGF), a polypeptide involved in the repairing process of epithelial cells. Human urine contains high concentrations of EGF, derived from its production in the kidney. It is not known if aging alters urinary EGF production in humans. This study investigates the possibility of dec...