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 no...

Radioimmunoassay of endogenous plasma growth hormone in human plasma fractions separated by starch gel electrophoresis shows that the plasma hormone migrates in a fairly narrow peak behind serum albumin. A similar electrophoretic mobility is exhibited by certain pituitary growth hormone preparations (the A type of Wilhehni), added to plasma in physiological concentrations or on electrophoresis ...

The nucleotide sequence of a DNA complementary to human growth hormone messenger RNA was cloned; it contains 29 nucleotides in its 5' untranslated region, the 651 nucleotides coding for the prehormone, and the entire 3' untranslated region (108 nucleotides). The data reported predict the previously unknown sequence of the signal peptide of human growth hormone and, by comparison with the previo...

Monocyte infiltration occurs early in the course of inflammation and is a prerequisite for optimal repair of tissue damage. In this study, human recombinant growth hormone was shown to be a potent chemoattractant for human monocytes, inducing migration at picomolar concentrations of recombinant human growth hormone. Chemotaxis of monocytes was measured in vitro by a modified Boyden chamber assa...

Advances in Therapy for Hormone Receptor (HR)-Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor 2 (HER2)-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer Patients Who Have Experienced Progression After Treatment with CDK4/6 Inhibitors

The effectiveness of human growth hormone (H.G.H.) in man is now well established from both the acute metabolic response (Beck et al., 1958 ; Ikkos et al., 1959 ; Medical Research Council, 1959) and the stimulation of growth after long-term therapy (Raben, 1962). In this paper we report the results of studies of the acute metabolic response to injected H.G.H. in different types of dwarfism and,...