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Growth hormone response to hpGRF-40 in different forms of growth retardation and endocrine-metabolic diseases
The effect of one of the new human pancreatic growth hormone releasing factors (hpGRFs) was assessed in children or young adults with different forms of growth retardation or endocrine-metabolic diseases. Intr...
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Growth-hormone releasing factor and clonidine in children with constitutional growth delay. Evidence for defective pituitary growth hormone reserve
Six male prepubertal children with constitutional growth delay (CGD), and a subnormal growth hormone (GH) response to insulin hypoglycemia, and four normal prepubertal children were given in different occasion...
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Sexual maturation and adrenal function in girls with thalassemia
Adrenal steroid production was evaluated in 12 thalassemic girls aged between 18 and 22 years and at stage P1 of sexual maturation according to Tanner. The values found in these patients were compared with tho...
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Adrenal and testicular function in boys affected by thalassemia
The adrenal androgen secretion and testicular function were studied in 6 thalassemic boys aged between 16 and 20 years. Six normal boys of the same age and 6 at the same pubertal stage (P1 according to Tanner)...
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Puerperal breast feeding does not stimulate circulating opioids in humans
ACTH, βlipotropin (βLPH), βendorphin (βEP), Prolactin (PRL) and Cortisol were measured in the first five days of Puerperium at 9:00, before and 30 minutes after suckling, in 7 healthy lactating women. With the ex...
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Effect of short dexamethasone suppression on plasma steroids in prepubertal and pubertal girls
In 40 girls aged from 2 to 14 years, subdivided into groups according to age and pubertal development, and in 6 adult female volunteers, plasma Cortisol (F), pregnenolone (δ5), de-hydroepiandrosterone (DHA), prog...