Phenytoin-induced increase in growth hormone response to levodopa in adult males.
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 47 (7) , 715-719
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.47.7.715
Abstract
Growth hormone and prolactin response to levodopa were evaluated before and after long-term phenytoin treatment in 5 men with previously untreated partial epilepsy. After phenytoin treatment, growth hormone response to levodopa increased. There was a close relationship between growth hormone response to levodopa and plasma phenytoin concentrations. These findings suggest a phenytoin-induced dopaminergic activity at the hypothalamic-pituitary level in adult males.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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