Sex steroids, GHRH, somatostatin, IGF-I, and IGFBP-1 modulate Ghrelin's dose-dependent drive of pulsatile GH secretion in healthy older men

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4753-4760

  Veldhuis, Johannes D ^a   Norman, Catalina ^a   Miles, John M ^a   Bowers, Cyril Y ^b  

^a MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; LEUPRORELIN; PLACEBO; SEX HORMONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOSTATIN; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENCY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GHRELIN; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HEALTH; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 1; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEUPROLIDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBOS; PULSATILE FLOW; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 84870762543     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-2567     Document Type: Article

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