Human Growth Hormone

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Basal, pulsatile, entropic (patterned), and spiky (staccato-like) properties of ACTH secretion: impact of age, gender, and body mass index. 
  • Characterization of a putative insulin-responsive element and its binding protein(s) in rat angiotensinogen gene promoter: regulation by glucose and insulin. 
  • Chronic disease in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort: a review of published findings. 
  • Echocardiographic assessment of cardiac morphology and function in mutant dwarf rats. 
  • Effect of recombinant human growth hormone on exercise capacity in patients with HIV-associated wasting on HAART. 
  • Effects of an oral growth hormone secretagogue in older adults. 
  • Efficient assembly of de novo human artificial chromosomes from large genomic loci. 
  • Gamma Knife radiosurgery as a primary surgical treatment for hypersecreting pituitary adenomas. 
  • Ghrelin stimulation of growth hormone isoforms: parallel secretion of total and 20-kDa growth hormone and relation to insulin sensitivity in healthy humans. 
  • GrowthHormone Research Society workshop summary: consensus guidelines for recombinant human growth hormone therapy in Prader-Willi syndrome. 
  • Human longevity and variation in GH/IGF-1/insulin signaling, DNA damage signaling and repair and pro/antioxidant pathway genes: cross sectional and longitudinal studies. 
  • Insulin-like growth factor-1 but not growth hormone augments mammalian myocardial contractility by sensitizing the myofilament to Ca2+ through a wortmannin-sensitive pathway: studies in rat and ferret isolated muscles. 
  • Large pituitary gland with an expanding lesion in the context of neurofibromatosis 1. 
  • Macronutrient Regulation of Ghrelin and Peptide YY in Pediatric Obesity and Prader-Willi Syndrome. 
  • Nocturnal ACTH, cortisol, growth hormone, and prolactin secretion in prepubertal depression. 
  • Not ready for prime time. 
  • Pegvisomant interference in GH assays results in underestimation of GH levels. 
  • Performance-enhancing drugs. 
  • Performance-enhancing sports supplements: role in critical care. 
  • Phenotypic Characterization of MIP-CreERT1Lphi Mice With Transgene-Driven Islet Expression of Human Growth Hormone. 
  • Physiologic concentrations of exogenously infused ghrelin reduces insulin secretion without affecting insulin sensitivity in healthy humans. 
  • Pituitary adenomas: the effect of gamma knife radiosurgery on tumor growth and endocrinopathies. 
  • Prader Willi Syndrome: Genetics, Metabolomics, Hormonal Function, and New Approaches to Therapy. 
  • Progressive cardiac dysfunction and fibrosis in the cardiomyopathic hamster and effects of growth hormone and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition. 
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology of schizophrenia. 
  • Short stature, growth hormone deficiency, and social anxiety. 
  • Survey of long-term follow-up programs in the United States for survivors of childhood brain tumors. 
  • The roles of placental growth hormone and placental lactogen in the regulation of human fetal growth and development. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Freemark, Michael Scott, Robert C. Atkins, M.D. and Veronica Atkins Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Endocrinology