Title : Effect of an oral serotonin antagonist, ketanserin, on plasma ACTH concentrations in Nelson's syndrome.

Pub. Date : 1984 Sep 29

PMID : 6089950






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1 A study was performed to see whether ketanserin, a serotonin antagonist, would reduce the raised concentrations of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) in patients with Nelson"s syndrome. Serotonin proopiomelanocortin Homo sapiens
2 In healthy people serotonin seems to have a stimulatory role in the regulation of ACTH secretion, and the effect of ketanserin in reducing the ACTH response to hypoglycaemia suggested that it might prove useful in Nelson"s syndrome. Serotonin proopiomelanocortin Homo sapiens