Title | Human Growth Hormone [electronic resource] / edited by Salvatore Raiti, Robert A. Tolman |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1986 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7201-5 |
Descript | XIII, 662 p. 157 illus. online resource |
I -- The National Hormone and Pituitary Program: Achievements and Current Goals -- II -- The NIADDK Hormone Distribution Program -- I. Hypopituitarism and Hyperpituitarism: Clinical Studies -- 1 A Perspective on Growth Hormone and Growth: A Tribute to Maurice Raben -- 2 Growth Hormone Hypersecretory States -- 3 Clinical Features, Tests, and Causes of Growth Hormone Deficiency -- 4 Dose-Response Relationships in Growth Hormone Therapy -- 5 Dose Studies for Human Growth Hormone in Hypopituitarism: Current Recommendations -- 6 Subcutaneous versus Intramuscular Injection of Human Growth Hormone -- 7 Psychosocial Impact of Long-Term Growth Hormone Therapy -- II. Human Growth Hormone in other Forms of Short Stature: Gene Studies -- 8 Growth-Stimulating Effects of Human Growth Hormone Therapy in Turnerโs Syndrome: Preliminary Report -- 9 Turnerโs Syndrome and Human Growth Hormone: Biochemical Studies -- 10 Short Normal Children in Therapeutic Trial of Human Growth Hormone Responsiveness -- 11 Bioinactive Growth Hormone and Secondary Growth Hormone Deficiency -- 12 The Hyposomatomedinemic Short Child -- 13 Growth Hormone-Resistant Syndromes -- 14 Hormonal Regulation of Growth Hormone Gene Expression -- 15 Organization and Function of the Growth Hormone Gene Cluster -- 16 Defects of Growth Hormone Genes: Clinical Syndromes -- III. Biosynthesis of Human Growth Hormone: Clinical Studies -- 17 Standards for Growth Hormone -- 18 Recombinant DNA Synthesis of Human Growth Hormone -- 19 Methionyl Human Growth Hormone (Somatonormยฎ): Purity and Properties -- 20 Clinical Studies with Recombinant-DNA-Derived Methionyl-Human Growth Hormone in Growth Hormone-Deficient Children -- 21 Experience with Methionyl Growth Hormone (Somatonorm I) in the United Kingdom -- 22 Clinical Experience with Biosynthetic Growth Hormone (III) -- IV. Control of Growth Hormone Secretion, Growth Hormone-Releasing Factor, Somatostatin -- 23 Regulation of Growth Hormone Secretion -- 24 Chemical, Anatomical and Physiological Studies on Human Pancreatic and Rat Hypothalamic Growth Hormone-Releasing Factor -- 25 Growth Hormone-Releasing Factor: Isolation, Characterization, and Physiology -- 26 Ectopic Growth Hormone-Releasing Factor Syndromes -- 27 Growth Hormone-Releasing Factor -- 28 Acromegaly Related to Tumoral Secretion of Growth Hormone-Releasing Factor -- 29 Studies with Growth Hormone-Releasing Factor (GRF) in the Human: Effect of a Single Pulse, Continuous Infusion, or Multiple Pulses of GRF on Growth Hormone (GH) Release in Normal and GH-Deficient Children and Adults -- 30 Somatostatin: Biosynthesis, Regulation of Secretion, and Role in Growth Hormone Regulation -- V. Chemistry of Human Growth Hormone: Physiological Studies -- 31 Conformational Comparison of Human Pituitary Growth Hormone and Human Chorionic Somatomammotropin (Human Placental Lactogen) by Second-Order Absorption Spectroscopy -- 32 Multiple Forms of Human Growth Hormone -- 33 The Multivalent Nature of Growth Hormone -- 34 Isolation of Growth Hormone Receptor -- 35 Structural Studies of the Growth Hormone Receptor by Affinity Labeling -- 36 Binding of Growth Hormone to Hepatic Receptors -- 37 Growth Hormone Action on Adipocytes -- VI. Somatomedin/Insulinlike Growth Factor -- 38 Chemistry of Somatomedins -- 39 Synthetic Somatomedin C/Insulinlike Growth Factor I -- 40 Biosynthesis of Rat Insulinlike Growth Factor II in Intact Cells and Cell-Free Translation -- 41 The Insulinlike Growth Factor Receptors -- 42 The Somatomedin Binding Proteins -- 43 Direct Action of Growth Hormone on Cartilage Growth -- 44 Increased Somatomedin Inhibitors in Renal Failure -- 45 Action of Somatomedins on Cell Growth: Effect of Selective Neutralization of Somatomedin C (Insulinlike Growth Factor I) with a Monoclonal Antibody -- 46 Regulation of Serum Insulinlike Growth Factor II -- 47 Somatomedin C/Insulinlike Growth Factor I: Regulation and Clinical Applications -- 48 Somatomedin/Insulinlike Growth Factor in the Human Fetus -- 49 Somatomedin C in the Ovine Fetus and Neonate -- Contributors