EFFECT OF LEVODOPA (L-DOPA) ON HUMAN HYPOPHYSEAL TROPHIC HORMONE RELEASE1
- 1 October 1971
- journal article
- other
- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 33 (4) , 709-712
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-33-4-709
Abstract
Single oral dose increments of levodopa (250, 500, and 1,000 mg, given on 3 consecutive days) produced significant peak levels of immunoreactive growth hormone (HGH) in 7 hospitalized healthy males. Serum glucose, cortisol, immunoreactive insulin, luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) were not altered significantly. Levodopa has great potential as a provocative agent for stimulating growth hormone release.Keywords
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