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      Age-related reduction of human growth hormone-binding sites in the human brain

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      Brain Research
      Elsevier BV

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          Abstract

          Previous studies have shown that alterations in various neuroendocrine functions occur with increasing age. We here report a study of growth hormone (GH)-binding sites in different areas of post-mortem human brains collected from individual males and females of different age. The results indicate that there exists a significant negative correlation between the density of GH-binding sites and increasing age. This phenomenon was observed in both sexes in brain areas such as choroid plexus, hippocampus, hypothalamus, pituitary and putamen but not in e.g. thalamus. In all tissues (except for choroid plexus), the GH binding was significantly higher in those originating from females than those from males. This discrepancy was found likely to be associated with the affinity of GH to lactogenic rather than to somatogenic sites as no pronounced sex difference in binding was observed in the presence of excessive amounts of human prolactin. Data also indicate that the putative GH receptors in the various brain regions differ with regard to binding constants and to the estimated molecular size of the hormone-binding units. The loss of GH receptors in brain of elderly people may have consequences in several physiological courses. The decrease in GH binding at hypothalamic and pituitary levels may be of importance for the mechanisms behind the release or secretion of the hormone.

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          Journal
          Brain Research
          Brain Research
          Elsevier BV
          00068993
          September 1993
          September 1993
          : 621
          : 2
          : 260-266
          Article
          10.1016/0006-8993(93)90114-3
          8242339
          5c29d301-4858-4e58-9d14-9de3f1cb4a56
          © 1993

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