The influence of plasma triglycerides on human growth hormone response to arginine and insulin: a study in hyperlipemics and normal subjects - PubMed (original) (raw)
The influence of plasma triglycerides on human growth hormone response to arginine and insulin: a study in hyperlipemics and normal subjects
M Muggeo et al. Horm Metab Res. 1975 Sep.
Abstract
Human growth hormone (HGH) response to arginine (25 gm IV in 30 min) and to insulin (0.1 U/kg B.W.) was studied in 12 male patients (mean age 36 +/- 2 years), with normal glucose tolerance and normal body weight, affected with Fredrickson's Type IV primary hyperlipemia. The patients were examined both when plasma triglycerides (TG) were elevated and following clofibrate (2 gm/die for 30-60 days) induced TG reduction. No variations in glucose or FFA behaviour or in body weight were observed after clofibrate. HGH response to arginine was absent, while that to insulin was only inhibited, when plasma TG were elevated. A significant increase in HGH peaks after arginine (from 1.99 +/- 0.59 to 9.34 +/- 1.58 ng/ml) and a slight increment in HGH peaks after insulin (from 23.09 +/- 7.19 to 31.46 +/- 7.95 ng/ml) were observed following reduction in plasma TG. Arginine test was carried out in 7 normal subjects during saline infusion and at the 3rd hour of lipid infusion (Intralipid 20%). HGH response to arginine was absent in all of the subjects during lipid infusion. The HGH response to insulin test, carried out in 9 other normal subjects during saline infusion and at the 3rd hour of lipid infusion (Lipiphysan 15%) was significantly inhibited during lipid infusion. Since lipid infusion provoked an increment, not only in plasma TG but also in FFA, the inhibition of HGH release could be correlated with the elevated plasma levels of both TG and FFA. The results obtained in both spontaneous and experimental hyperlipemia not only confirm the role played by FFA in the regulation of HGH secretion, but also support the hypothesis that elevated TG levels could inhibit HGH response to some stimuli.
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