The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of daily injection of bovine somatotropin (bST) on the metabolism of N and 1-[14C]leucine and on hormone and metabolite concentrations in growing beef steers. Injection of bST increased N retention (P less than .05) primarily through decreased (P less than .10) urinary N excretion. Plasma concentration of somatotropin, insulin and gluco...

The purpose of this case study is to report the use of oral Bovril (a food supplement which contains arginine) as an alternative test for growth hormone stimulation test. We performed oral Bovril test in 3 patients -- one with suspected growth hormone deficiency in whom insulin tolerance test could not be performed (subject A), one sex-matched control (subject B), and one with confirmed growth ...

The growth and growth hormone profiles in four children receiving three different regimens of treatment with human growth hormone (hGH) were compared. There was no significant difference in the rate of growth between the regimens; the rate of growth fell dramatically after treatment. Pulsatile administration of hGH was no better than conventional treatment.

Contributions of somatotropic hormonal activity to memory functions in humans, which are suggested by clinical observations, have not been systematically examined. With previous experiments precluding a direct effect of systemic growth hormone (GH) on acute memory formation, we assessed the role of central nervous somatotropic signaling in declarative memory consolidation. We examined the effec...

A retrospective analysis was performed in an attempt to identify perinatal risk factors for the development of growth hormone deficiency. More of the affected children were boys, and their birth weights were significantly lower than those of the national average; there were also considerably more preterm and post-term deliveries among boys.

This manuscript presents the results of a review of the effects of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) on dairy cattle health, reproductive performance, and culling, that was carried out by an expert panel established by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA). The panel was established by the CVMA in response to a request from Health Canada in 1998 and their report was made publi...

Zusammenfassung Der Knochenstoffwechsel ist ein komplexer Vorgang, der von zahlreichen Hormonen abhängt und durch ihre Wirkungen zeitlebens dynamisch beeinflusst wird. Nicht nur in Zeit des Wachstums Hormonmangelphasen, sondern auch den vielen Jahren „stabilen Gleichgewichts“ im Erwachsenenalter sollte bei verminderter Knochendichte an hormonelle Veränderungen gedacht vor allem eine bestehende ...

OBJECTIVE The effects of human leptin fragment(126-140) on pituitary function in eight healthy, non-obese men were studied. METHODS AND DESIGN The effects of the fragment on spontaneous secretion of pituitary hormones and endogenous leptin, as well as on GHRH-induced GH secretion were examined. RESULTS After the administration of the fragment (50 microg i.v. for 150 min), the mean nadir val...

There are errors in Table 2. Please see the corrected Table 2 here. Copyright: © 2015 Willaschek et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.