LACK OF PLACENTAL TRANSFER OF HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE
- 1 December 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Acta Endocrinologica
- Vol. 53 (4) , 687-692
- https://doi.org/10.1530/acta.0.0530687
Abstract
Fourteen healthy women were given intravenous injections of either high doses of non-labelled or tracer doses of 131I-labelled human growth hormone (HGH) between 270 and 10 minutes before delivery. The concentration of HGH in the plasma was followed at intervals up to delivery and then in the cord plasma and newborn infant. Both methods of study showed that growth hormone is not transferred from the mother to the foetus. An additional finding was the shortened biological half life (t½) of 131I-HGH in the women at delivery as compared to that in normal adults or adolescents.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Growth Hormone Levels in Maternal and Cord BloodJournal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1965