Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: TRH induces GH secretion presumably by expression of TRH receptor dedifferentiated in pitutiary tumors, but it is not clear how the TRH elegantly stimulates GH secretion in tumoral states.Design: The aim of this study was to investigate how GH-producing pituitary adenomas respond to TRH with respect to GH secretion and how it differs according to octreotide responses and their sizes of tumor.Method: GH levels of 45 patie...

Objective: Change in somatostatinergic tone (SST) is one of the key features of acromegaly, but the effect of tumor size on SST is not clear.Design: The aim of this study was to determine how SST changes depending upon the size of GH-producing pituitary tumors.Method: GH levels of 29 patients with newly diagnosed acromegaly were measured using a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), an insulin tolerance test (ITT) and an octreot...