Acylated Ghrelin Secretion Is Acutely Suppressed by Oral Glucose Load or Insulin-Induced Hypoglycemia Independently of Basal Growth Hormone Secretion in Humans

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Background: Ghrelin has been reported to be the natural ligand of growth hormone (GH) secretagogue receptor, and it is known that exogenous ghrelin administration strongly stimulates GH release in humans . However, the effects of endogenous ghrelin on GH secretion and changes in ghrelin levels during dynamic changes in GH levels are not well understood. Methods: Therefore, we measured circulating acylated ghrelin concentrations during oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTTs) in patients with active acromegaly (AA, n = 9) and in age/sex/BMI-matched group A controls (n = 12), and during insulin tolerance testing (ITT) in patients with GH deficiency (GHD, n = 10) and in group B controls (n = 10). Plasma acylated ghrelin, serum GH, insulin and glucose levels were measured during each test. Results: Fasting plasma ghrelin levels correlated negatively with serum insulin levels in both group A and B controls (r = –0.665; p < 0.05) but not in patients with AA or GHD. During OGTTs, circulating ghrelin levels decreased significantly with a nadir at 30 min in both patients with AA (p < 0.05) and group A controls (p < 0.01). Also, ITTs were followed by a significant decrease in circulating ghrelin levels with a nadir at 30 min in patients with GHD (p < 0.05) and in group B controls (p < 0.05). Conclusion: The results of the study show that at baseline acylated ghrelin levels do not differ with respect to the GH status (GH excess or GH deficiency) and, furthermore, the suppression of acylated ghrelin levels during OGTT or ITT is independent of the GH response to the tests.

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Deletion of ghrelin impairs neither growth nor appetite.

Yuxiang Sun, Richard A G Smith, Saira Ahmed (2003)

Pharmacological studies show that ghrelin stimulates growth hormone release, appetite, and fat deposition, but ghrelin's physiological role in energy homeostasis has not been established. Ghrelin was also proposed to regulate leptin and insulin release and to be important for the normal function of stomach, heart, kidney, lung, testis, and placenta. To help determine a definable physiological role for ghrelin, we generated ghrelin-null mice. In contrast to predictions made from the pharmacology of ghrelin, ghrelin-null mice are not anorexic dwarfs; their size, growth rate, food intake, body composition, reproduction, gross behavior, and tissue pathology are indistinguishable from wild-type littermates. Fasting produces identical decreases in serum leptin and insulin in null and wild-type mice. Ghrelin-null mice display normal responses to starvation and diet-induced obesity. As in wild-type mice, the administration of exogenous ghrelin stimulates appetite in null mice. Our data show that ghrelin is not critically required for viability, fertility, growth, appetite, bone density, and fat deposition and not likely to be a direct regulator of leptin and insulin. Therefore, antagonists of ghrelin are unlikely to have broad utility as antiobesity agents.

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Neurosteroid metabolism in the human brain.

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This review summarizes the current knowledge of the biosynthesis of neurosteroids in the human brain, the enzymes mediating these reactions, their localization and the putative effects of neurosteroids. Molecular biological and biochemical studies have now firmly established the presence of the steroidogenic enzymes cytochrome P450 cholesterol side-chain cleavage (P450SCC), aromatase, 5alpha-reductase, 3alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in human brain. The functions attributed to specific neurosteroids include modulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid A (GABAA), N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA), nicotinic, muscarinic, serotonin (5-HT3), kainate, glycine and sigma receptors, neuroprotection and induction of neurite outgrowth, dendritic spines and synaptogenesis. The first clinical investigations in humans produced evidence for an involvement of neuroactive steroids in conditions such as fatigue during pregnancy, premenstrual syndrome, post partum depression, catamenial epilepsy, depressive disorders and dementia disorders. Better knowledge of the biochemical pathways of neurosteroidogenesis and their actions on the brain seems to open new perspectives in the understanding of the physiology of the human brain as well as in the pharmacological treatment of its disturbances.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): HRE

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Horm Res Paediatr

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1663-2818

Title: Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1663-2818

ISSN (Electronic): 1663-2826

Publication date Subscription-year: 2007

Publication date (Print): April 2007

Publication date (Electronic): 16 November 2006

Volume: 67

Issue: 5

Pages: 211-219

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^aDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, ^bSeoul National University Hospital Clinical Research Institute, ^cInstitute for Endocrinology, Nutrition and Metabolism, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, and ^dDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul, Korea

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Publisher ID: 97098 Other ID: Horm Res 2007;67:211–219

DOI: 10.1159/000097098

PubMed ID: 17114888

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Date received : 19 January 2006

Date accepted : 21 September 2006

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