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Following a mixed meal, plasma hormone responses were measured in four type 1 diabetic children and in eight short normal children. Between 60 and 150 min after ingestion of the mixed meal there was a significant increase in circulating growth hormone-releasing hormone values both in diabetic and in normal children. Mean plasma GHRH peak values were not different between diabetic patients (27.0±3.9 ng/l) and controls (24.6±4.9 ng/l). No time relationship to spontaneous growth hormone peaks was observed. Whereas normal children showed a characteristic biphasic plasma somatostatin response, somatostatin plasma levels in diabetic children did not change. In normal children plasma insulin values increased between 30 and 150 min, but remained unchanged in type 1 diabetic patients. Blood glucose response was more pronounced in diabetic children than in short normal children. These results indicate that circulating growth hormone-releasing hormone does not play a dominant role in the regulation of insulin and somatostatin.
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Abbreviations
- GHRH:
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growth hormone-releasing hormone
- GH:
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growth hormone
- SRIF:
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somatotropin inhibiting factor
- RIA:
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radioimmunoassay
- SEM:
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standard error of the mean
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This study was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ro 717/1-1)
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Rosskamp, R., Haverkamp, F., Thomas, B. et al. Plasma growth hormone-releasing hormone levels in type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic children following a mixed meal. Klin Wochenschr 66, 257–260 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01748167
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