Title : The altered plasma amino acid pattern is responsible for the paradoxical growth hormone response to the oral glucose tolerance test in liver cirrhosis.

Pub. Date : 1998 Feb

PMID : 9579229






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1 It has been suggested that the ratio between branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and aromatic amino acids (AAAs) (BCAA/ AAA ratio) may determine in part the brain concentration of the AAAs, since the BCAAs compete with the AAAs for entry across the blood-brain barrier, leading to the accumulation of false neurotransmitters such as octopamine and phenylethanolamine, which are able to stimulate GH secretion (via alpha 2-adrenergic stimulation). Octopamine AT-rich interaction domain 4B Homo sapiens