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15138154

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-8-13
pubmed:abstractText
The physiological importance of endogenous ghrelin in the regulation of growth hormone (GH) secretion is still unknown. To investigate the regulation of ghrelin secretion and pulsatility, we performed overnight ghrelin and GH sampling every 20 min for 12 h in eight healthy male subjects [age 37 +/- 5 (SD) years old, body mass index 27.2 +/- 2.9 kg/m2]. Simultaneous GH and ghrelin levels were assessed to determine the relatedness and synchronicity between these two hormones in the fasted state during the overnight period of maximal endogenous GH secretion. Pulsatility analyses were performed to determine simultaneous hormonal dynamics and investigate the relationship between GH and ghrelin by use of cross-approximate entropy (X-ApEn) analyses. Subjects demonstrated 3.0 +/- 2.1 ghrelin pulses/12 h and 3.3 +/- 0.9 GH pulses/12 h. The mean normalized ghrelin entropy (ApEn) was 0.93 +/- 0.09, indicating regularity in ghrelin hormone secretion. The mean normalized X-ApEn was significant between ghrelin and GH (0.89 +/- 0.12), demonstrating regularity in cosecretion. In addition, we investigated the ghrelin response to standard GH secretagogues [GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) alone and combined GHRH-arginine] in separate testing sequences separated by 1 wk. Our data demonstrate that, in contrast to GHRH alone, which had little effect on ghrelin, combined GHRH and arginine significantly stimulated ghrelin with a maximal peak at 120 min, representing a change of 66 +/- 14 pg/ml (P = 0.001 by repeated-measures ANOVA and P = 0.02 for GHRH vs. combined GHRH-arginine by MANOVA). We demonstrate relatedness between ghrelin and GH pulsatility, suggesting either that ghrelin participates in the pulsatile regulation of GH or that the two hormones are simultaneously coregulated, e.g., by somatostatin or other stimuli. Furthermore, the differential effects of GHRH alone vs. GHRH-arginine suggest that inhibition of somatostatin tone may increase ghrelin. These data provide further evidence of the physiological regulation of ghrelin in relationship to GH.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0193-1849
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
287
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
E506-12
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Nocturnal ghrelin pulsatility and response to growth hormone secretagogues in healthy men.
pubmed:affiliation
Program in Nutritional Metabolism and Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Randomized Controlled Trial