Amenorrhoea is the constant feature of Anorexia Nervosa (AN), caused by sharp metabolism reduction gonadotropines as compared with prepubertal level, but its exact mechanism unknown. Biochemical mediators, involved in this process, include cortisol, leptin, growth hormone (GH), insulin-like factor (IGF-1) and cytokines. Experimental investigation that produced fat cells, plays a role metabolic ...

GH exerts a wide variety of biological actions in many different tissues and cell types. The actions of GH at the cellular level can be divided into three categories: metabolic, mitogenic and differentiation. Metabolic effects of GH have been well documented and characterized in adipocytes. The major effect of GH in adipocytes from intact animals is an anti insulin-like or diabetogenic effect [...

Somatostatin signals through somatostatin receptor subtypes (SSTR) 2 and 5 to attenuate GH secretion. Although expressed in normal pituitary glands and in GH-secreting pituitary tumors, SSTR3 function was unclear, and we have now determined the role of SSTR3 in somatotroph function. Stable rat pituitary tumor cell (GC) transfectants of human SSTR3 (GpSSTR3(WT)) showed suppression of rat (r) GH ...

We examined gender differences in growth hormone (GH) secretion during rest and exercise. Eighteen subjects (9 women and 9 men) were tested on two occasions each [resting condition (R) and exercise condition (Ex)]. Blood was sampled at 10-min intervals from 0600 to 1200 and was assayed for GH by chemiluminescence. At R, women had a 3.69-fold greater mean calculated mass of GH secreted per burst...

Height, which is partially determined by GH secretion, is genetically influenced. The purpose of this study was to identify polymorphisms in the GH-1 gene, which are associated with altered GH production. The subjects included prepubertal short children with GH insufficiency without gross pituitary abnormalities (n = 43), short children with normal GH secretion (n = 46), and normal adults (n = ...

Human growth hormone (GH) was first isolated from the human pituitary gland in 1945 and found to promote the growth of children with hypopituitarism. Since the formation of the World Anti-Doping Association, human GH has appeared on the list of forbidden substances. There is a significant amount of anecdotal evidence that human GH is misused by athletes to enhance performance, and there have be...

primary growth hormone insensitivity syndrome (ghis) is a rare entity which can be due to defects in growth hormone (gh) receptor that is called type 1 laron syndrome (t1ls) or post receptor defects (type 2 laron syndrome ). the aim of study was determining the clinical and hormonal milieu of the patients with primary ghis and their response to igf-i (insulin like growth factor-i) generation te...

Growth hormone (GH) secretion is vividly pulsatile in all mammalian species studied. In a simplified model, self-renewable GH pulsatility can be reproduced by assuming individual, reversible, time-delayed, and threshold-sensitive hypothalamic outflow of GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) and GH release-inhibiting hormone (somatostatin; SRIF). However, this basic concept fails to explicate an array of ...

INTRODUCTION Human neurodegenerative diseases increase progressively with age and present a high social and economic burden. Growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) are both growth factors exerting trophic effects on neuronal regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). GH and IGF-1 stimulate protein synthesis in neurons, glia, oligo...

Human scalp hair follicles (HFs) are a major non-classical peripheral site of neurohormone production. However, it is unknown whether human HFs also produce the key hypothalamic-pituitary-somatotropic (HPS) axis neurohormones, its main member growth hormone (GH), and upstream hypothalamic regulator, GH-releasing (GHRH). To answer this, we treated microdissected with either GH (100 or 300 ng/mL)...