On the Half Life of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone in Rats

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After the injection of 14C-labeled TRH into normal male rats, radioactivity disappeared rapidly from the circulation. The half life of 14C-TRH was found to be 4.16 min; however, the true half life of TRH may be masked, since TRH is rapidly inactivated in the blood to compounds having similar chemical structures and probably similar half lives. Chromatography of methanol extracts of plasma samples taken at 1, 2, and 6 min revealed that some of the radioactivity had the same Rf value as that of TRH, while other areas corresponded to the free acid of TRH (pyro-glu-his-pro-OH), glu-his-pro, and his-pro-NH2. The mean volume of distribution of TRH in our studies was 18.5% of the body weight. Approximately 25% of the radioactivity was excreted into the urine within 60 min after the intravenous injection of 1 µCi of 14C-TRH. Urinary radioactive metabolites appeared to have the same electrophoretic mobilities as TRH and the free acid of TRH.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): NEN

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Neuroendocrinology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0028-3835

Title: Neuroendocrinology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0028-3835

ISSN (Electronic): 1423-0194

Publication date Subscription-year: 1972

Publication date (Print): 1972

Publication date (Electronic): 19 March 2008

Volume: 9

Issue: 4

Pages: 250-256

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Endocrine and Polypeptide Laboratories, Veterans Administration Hospital and Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Publisher ID: 122056 Other ID: Neuroendocrinology 1972;9:250–256

DOI: 10.1159/000122056

PubMed ID: 4622720

SO-VID: 70a122e0-1c50-442e-84f0-ab96cab0d792

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Date received : 29 September 1971

Date accepted : 08 November 1971

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Pages: 7

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