Wise PH, Burnet RB, Geary TD, Berriman H. Selective impairment of growth hormone response to physiological stimuli.
Arch Dis Child 1975;
50:210-4. [PMID:
1147653 PMCID:
PMC1544503 DOI:
10.1136/adc.50.3.210]
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Abstract
In a consecutive group of 25 children with defective growth being evaluated for growth hormone deficiency, EEG-monitored slow-wave sleep provided discriminatory serum growth hormone responses equivalent to those obtained by arginine and insulin-hypoglycaemia provocation. Exercise was less effective but was able to provide a useful screening test. In 2 subjects with abnormal physiological but normal pharmacological serum growth hormone responses, therapeutic administration of growth hormone in one resulted in a significant growth increment, whereas in the other, advanced epiphyseal maturity precluded adequate evaluation. A normal growth hormone response to a pharmacological stimulus does not exclude a therapeutic response to human growth hormone.
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