The effects of human growth hormone treatment for five years on sitting height and subischial leg length of 35 prepubertal children with isolated growth hormone deficiency were investigated. Body segments reacted equally to treatment with human growth hormone; this is important when comparing the effect of growth hormone on the growth of children with skeletal dysplasias or after spinal irradia...

A fragment, A-II, isolated from a component of a tryptic digest of bovine growth hormone has growth-promoting activity in rats and metabolic activity in humans similar to human growth hormone. The amino acid sequence of this peptide has been reinvestigated and revised. The 38-amino acid peptide was cleaved with cyanogen bromide, chymotrypsin, and trypsin. The amino acid sequences were then esta...

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...

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...

The objective of this study was to examine the degradation of short peptides corresponding to modified fragments of human growth hormone-releasing hormone by trypsin. Six analogues of pentapeptide 9-13 of human growth hormone-releasing hormone containing homoarginine, ornithine, glutamic acid, glycine, leucine or phenylalanine residue in position 11, two analogues of hexapeptide 8-13 of human g...

Since highly purified human pituitary growth hormone has become available, much information concerning its metabolic effects has been accumulated. However, simple and specific methods of measuring endogenous levels of human growth hormone have been difficult to achieve. Attempts to assay human growth hormone by injecting whole serum into hypophysectomized rats and measuring the width of the tib...

introduction turner syndrome is the most common chromosomal abnormality in females. girls with turner syndrome have an abmormal or missing x choromosme that causes short stature, ovarian failure, renovascular and cardiac anomalies. it has been shown that there is a tendency to obesity in the turner syndrome. this prospective study has been done to evaluate whether body mass index (bmi) is diffe...

Earlier immunological investigations of growth hormone (somatotropin) isolated from bovine and human pituitaries showed that these two protein hormone preparations form speciesspecific antibodies, as evidenced by the results of precipitin ring tests with rabbit antiserum and of anaphylactic shock experiments in guinea pigs (1, 2). It was further demonstrated that the rabbit antiserum exerts in ...

479 INTRODUCTION Growth hormone has been used in the treatment of short stature since 1957 . Prior to 1985, human cadaver-derived pituitary growth hormone was used. Recombinant human growth hormone which was approved in 1985 made available a reliable, virtually unlimited resource to replace human pituitary growth hormone (which was withdrawn due to reported cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). ...

Prolactin has been measured in unextracted human plasma by a sensitive and specific in vitro bioassay. Secretory activity of breast tissue fragments from mid-pregnant mice, incubated in organ culture with human plasma, serves as the histologic end point. Sensitivity is 5 ng/ml (0.14 mU/ml) or somewhat better for ovine prolactin, and approximately 0.42 mU/ml for prolactin activity of human plasm...