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      Growth Hormone and Growth Factors during Perinatal Life

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      Hormone Research in Paediatrics
      S. Karger AG
      Growth hormone, Insulin-like growth factor, Perinatal life, Fetus, Growth

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          Abstract

          Pituitary growth hormone (GH) is present in early pregnancy in the fetal circulation. The concentrations are higher than ever found during life, due to an unrestrained, basal secretion. GH receptors develop around midpregnancy, when they are present in low concentrations, and there is a rapid increase during the first months of life. The function of fetal GH – characterized by a nearly complete GH resistance – is largely unclear: there is only a small effect on longitudinal growth, and the regulation of growth factors is independent of GH. Possibly, metabolic effects of GH on fat and glucose metabolism and body composition are of greater importance. During the first months of life, the rapid fetal (GH-independent, nutrition-dependent) growth decelerates, a process that is partly compensated by the onset of GH-dependent longitudinal growth.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                HRE
                Horm Res Paediatr
                10.1159/issn.1663-2818
                Hormone Research in Paediatrics
                S. Karger AG
                978-3-8055-7097-8
                978-3-318-00598-1
                1663-2818
                1663-2826
                2000
                July 2000
                17 November 2004
                : 53
                : Suppl 1
                : 50-54
                Affiliations
                Section Pediatric Endocrinology, University Children’s Hospital Tübingen, Germany
                Article
                53205 Horm Res 2000;53(suppl 1):50–54
                10.1159/000053205
                10895043
                c605956d-5651-4795-bc4f-087761a4d6a9
                © 2000 S. Karger AG, Basel

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                Endocrinology & Diabetes,Neurology,Nutrition & Dietetics,Sexual medicine,Internal medicine,Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical medicine
                Insulin-like growth factor,Growth hormone,Fetus,Growth,Perinatal life

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