A Compendium of Leading Articles in the Field of Veterinary Endocrinology Selected for the Veterinary Practitioner
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Background: The secretion of growth hormone (GH) is stimulated by sleep, high protein diet, exercise, and hypoglycemia, among some other causes. A potent stimulus for GH release is a peptide from the stomach wall, ghrelin. In young dogs, ghrelin is more potent in stimulating GH release than is GH releasing hormone. In humans, ghrelin also stimulates the secretion of prolactin, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and cortisol. The most common cause of pituitary dwarfism in dogs is from a recessive autosomal trait in German shepherd dogs and Karelian bear dogs. The utility of ghrelin stimulation of GH secretion as a diagnostic test for canine pituitary dwarfism is unknown.
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SMALL ANIMAL CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY Volume 16, Issue 1, 2006 A compendium of leading articles in the field of veterinary endocrinology selected for the veterinary practitioner. Editors
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