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      Growth Hormone Axis in Cushing’s Syndrome

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          All levels of the growth hormone (GH), GH binding protein (GHBP), insulinlike growth factor (IGF) and IGF binding protein (IGFBP) axis are influenced by chronic hypercortisolism. Thus, there is a blunted response to GHRH alone or together with other stimuli associated with a marked suppression of endogenous GH secretion but accompanied by normal GHBP, normal to low IGF-1 and GHBPs 1 and 3 with the correspondent 41.5 and 38.5-kD molecular forms of the latter presenting values similar to normal. These findings may suggest enhanced GH sensitivity with normal or increased IGF-1 bioavailability to the correspondent tissue receptors. In conclusion, the glucocorticoid (GC)-induced target tissue resistance can neither be attributed to the suppression of the GH axis nor to changes in circulating GHBPs 1 and 3. However, it may be related either to the described 12- to-20-kD inhibitor(s) which antagonizes postbinding IGF-1 bioactivity (gene expression) and/or by the downmodulation of activator protein-1 (Fos/Jun) activity by the GC-GC receptor complex.

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          Journal
          HRE
          Horm Res Paediatr
          10.1159/issn.1663-2818
          Hormone Research in Paediatrics
          S. Karger AG
          978-3-8055-6280-5
          978-3-318-00020-7
          1663-2818
          1663-2826
          1996
          1996
          09 December 2008
          : 45
          : 1-2
          : 99-107
          Affiliations
          aEndocrine Service, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil bDivision of Endocrinology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
          Article
          184767 Horm Res 1996;45:99–107
          10.1159/000184767
          8742127
          f447d571-d140-4eb5-b937-c33aa705d832
          © 1996 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          Pages: 9
          Categories
          Session 4: Recent Advances

          Endocrinology & Diabetes,Neurology,Nutrition & Dietetics,Sexual medicine,Internal medicine,Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical medicine
          Cushing’s syndrome,Secretion, growth hormone,Molecular forms, binding proteins,Insulin-like growth factor-1,Binding proteins

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