Effects of ambient glycaemic state on growth hormone responsiveness in insulin-dependent diabetes

• Main Authors: Ismail, I.S., Scanlon, M.F., Peters, J.R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1991
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/10470/1/Effects_of_ambient_glycaemic_state_on_growth_hormone.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/10470/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

We wished to examine the effects of ambient glycaemia on hypothalamic somatostatinergic tone in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. After 6-hour periods of either euglycaemia (5 mmol/l) or hyperglycaemia (15 mmol/l), exercise-induced GH secretion was measured. Seven insulin dependent diabetics with...