TY - JOUR
T1 - Growth hormone (GH) secretion in patients with an inactivating defect of the GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) receptor is pulsatile
T2 - Evidence for a role for non-GHRH inputs into the generation of GH pulses
AU - Roelfsema, Ferdinand
AU - Biermasz, Nienke R.
AU - Veldman, Ronald Groote
AU - Veldhuis, Johannes D.
AU - Frölich, Marijke
AU - Henriëtte Stokvis-Brantsma, W.
AU - Wit, Jan Maarten
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PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - GH secretion is regulated by the interaction of GHRH and somatostatin and is released in 10-20 pulses in each 24-h cycle. The exact roles in pulse generation played by somatostatin, GHRH, and the recently isolated GH-releasing peptide, Ghrelin, are not fully elucidated. To investigate the GHRH-mediated GH secretion in human, we investigated pulsatile, entropic, and 24-h rhythmic GH secretion in two young adults (male, 24 yr; female, 23 yr) from a Moroccan family with a novel inactivating defect of the GHRH receptor gene. Data were compared with values in age- and gender-matched controls. Plasma GH concentration were measured by a sensitive immunofluorometric assay, with a detection limit of 0.01 mU/L. All plasma GH concentrations in the female patient were measurable; in the male patient 30 of 145 samples were at or below the detection limit. GH secretion was pulsatile, with 21 and 23 secretory episodes/24 h in the male and female patients, respectively. The fraction of basal to total GH secretion was raised in both patients by 0.18 and 0.15, respectively. The total 24-h GH production rate was greatly diminished; in the male patient it was 6.9 mU/L (normal values for his age, 26-63 mU/L), and in the female patient it was 4.2 mU/L (normal values for her age, 96-390 mU/L). The nyctohemeral plasma GH rhythm was preserved (P < 0.001), with normal acrophases (0430 and 0218 h in the male and female, respectively). Approximate entropy was greatly elevated in both subjects (0.82 in the male and 1.17 in the female; upper normal values for age and gender, 0.24 and 0.59, respectively). Intravenous injection of 50 μg GHRH failed to increase the plasma GH concentration in both patients, but 100 μg GH-releasing peptide-2 elicited a definite increase (male patient, 0.13 to 1.74 mU/L; female patient, 0.29 to 0.87 mU/L). Both patients had a partial empty sella on magnetic resonance imaging scanning. In summary, the present studies in two patients with a profound loss of function mutation of the GHRH receptor favor the view that in the human the timing of GH pulses is primarily supervised by intermittent somatostatin withdrawal, and the amplitude of GH pulses is driven by GHRH. In addition, we infer that effectual GHRH input controls the GH cell mass and the orderliness of the secretory process.
AB - GH secretion is regulated by the interaction of GHRH and somatostatin and is released in 10-20 pulses in each 24-h cycle. The exact roles in pulse generation played by somatostatin, GHRH, and the recently isolated GH-releasing peptide, Ghrelin, are not fully elucidated. To investigate the GHRH-mediated GH secretion in human, we investigated pulsatile, entropic, and 24-h rhythmic GH secretion in two young adults (male, 24 yr; female, 23 yr) from a Moroccan family with a novel inactivating defect of the GHRH receptor gene. Data were compared with values in age- and gender-matched controls. Plasma GH concentration were measured by a sensitive immunofluorometric assay, with a detection limit of 0.01 mU/L. All plasma GH concentrations in the female patient were measurable; in the male patient 30 of 145 samples were at or below the detection limit. GH secretion was pulsatile, with 21 and 23 secretory episodes/24 h in the male and female patients, respectively. The fraction of basal to total GH secretion was raised in both patients by 0.18 and 0.15, respectively. The total 24-h GH production rate was greatly diminished; in the male patient it was 6.9 mU/L (normal values for his age, 26-63 mU/L), and in the female patient it was 4.2 mU/L (normal values for her age, 96-390 mU/L). The nyctohemeral plasma GH rhythm was preserved (P < 0.001), with normal acrophases (0430 and 0218 h in the male and female, respectively). Approximate entropy was greatly elevated in both subjects (0.82 in the male and 1.17 in the female; upper normal values for age and gender, 0.24 and 0.59, respectively). Intravenous injection of 50 μg GHRH failed to increase the plasma GH concentration in both patients, but 100 μg GH-releasing peptide-2 elicited a definite increase (male patient, 0.13 to 1.74 mU/L; female patient, 0.29 to 0.87 mU/L). Both patients had a partial empty sella on magnetic resonance imaging scanning. In summary, the present studies in two patients with a profound loss of function mutation of the GHRH receptor favor the view that in the human the timing of GH pulses is primarily supervised by intermittent somatostatin withdrawal, and the amplitude of GH pulses is driven by GHRH. In addition, we infer that effectual GHRH input controls the GH cell mass and the orderliness of the secretory process.
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U2 - 10.1210/jcem.86.6.7536
DO - 10.1210/jcem.86.6.7536
M3 - Article
C2 - 11397840
AN - SCOPUS:0034974980
SN - 0021-972X
VL - 86
SP - 2459
EP - 2464
JO - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
JF - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
IS - 6
ER -