∂-Opioid Receptors and the Secretion of Growth Hormone in Man: Effect of Opioid ∂-Receptor Agonist Deltorphin on GH Responses to GH-Releasing Hormone and Insulin-Induced Hypoglycemia
作者:
Ettore Ciro degli Uberti,
Severn Salvadori,
Giorgio Trasforini,
Angelo Margutti,
Maria Rosaria Ambrosio,
Roberta Rossi,
Francesco Portaluppi,
Luciana Vergnani,
Raffaele Pansini,
期刊:
Neuroendocrinology
(Karger Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 56,
issue 6
页码: 907-912
ISSN:0028-3835
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1159/000126323
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Deltorphin;Opioids;Growth hormone;Opioid receptors;Hypoglycemia;Stress;Growth hormone-releasing factor
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
To investigate the role of ∂-opioid receptors in the modulation of growth hormone (GH) secretion, we compared in normal subjects the effect of the highly selective ∂-opioid receptor agonist Deltorphin (DT) on the GH secretion responses to pituitary (GH-releasing hormone, GHRH)- and hypothalamic (insulin-induced hypoglycemia, ΠH)-mediated stimuli. DT blunted the GH response to IIH, whereas it had no effect on the GH response to GHRH. It is concluded that in man DT-induced activation of ∂-opioid receptors exerts an inhibitory action on hypoglycemia-stimulated GH secretion. Based on the lack of an effect of DT on the GH response to GHRH, we suggest that DT may modulate the secretion of GH through suprapituitary mech
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