Floating-Harbor Syndrome (FHS) is a very rare condition of unknown etiology characterized by short stature, delayed bone age, characteristic facial features, delayed language skills and usually normal motor development. This syndrome has only once been associated with growth hormone deficiency and precocious puberty in the same patient. We describe a 5 4/12 year-old girl with the typical featur...

we studied the expression of human growth hormone (hgh) in e. coli under a bacteriophage t5-base promoter in a pqe30 expression vector. for an efficient expression of hgh cdna, a number of codons at the hgh n-terminal coding region were altered based on the e. coli major codons. an over-expression of hgh in the bacteria, carrying the recombinant plasmids, was observed at 37°c in the presence of...

INTRODUCTION Primary growth hormone resistance or growth hormone insensitivity syndrome, also known as Laron syndrome, is a hereditary disease caused by deletions or different types of mutations in the growth hormone receptor gene or by post-receptor defects. This disorder is characterized by a clinical appearance of severe growth hormone deficiency with high levels of circulating growth hormon...

recombinant human erythropoietin is a glycoprotein hormone that stimulates erythropoiesis. in clonogenic assays of hematopoietic progenitors, high concen-trations of erythropoietin (epo) increase cfu-e and diminish the number of granulocytes formed per culture plate. fetal progenitors are more sensitive to these effects of epo than progenitors from adults. we administered doses 50, 100, 200 iu/...

A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of intact human follicle-stimulating hormone (hFSH) was established and validated for accuracy, precision and sensitivity. Human FSH is a dimeric glycoprotein hormone widely used as a diagnostic analyte and as a therapeutic product in reproductive medicine. The technique develo...

Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) bind and activate the PTH/PTHrP receptor (PTH-1R). However, while the related receptor PTH-2R responds potently to PTH, it is not activated by PTHrP. Two hormone sites are known to be responsible for these different potencies. First, the absence of efficacy for PTHrP at PTH-2R is due to the presence of His-5 in PTHrP (Ile...