Title : Involvement of brain catecholamines and acetylcholine in growth hormone deficiency states. Pathophysiological, diagnostic and therapeutic implications.

Pub. Date : 1991 Feb

PMID : 1709847






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1 Levodopa (L-dopa) [125 to 500mg orally], the physiological precursor of the catecholamines, administered either alone or in combination with carbidopa (50mg orally), to prevent its peripheral decarboxylation to dopamine, and/or the beta-adrenoceptor antagonist propranolol (0.75 mg/kg orally), and the alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist clonidine (0.15 mg/m2 orally), are a fairly reliable stimulus of GH release. Levodopa growth hormone 1 Homo sapiens