Somatotroph Responsiveness to Low Dose Dopamine Infusion in Normal Subjects and Acromegalic Patients
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Abstract
We have investigated the effects of intravenous administration of a low dose of dopamine (DA) on plasma growth hormone (GH) concentrations in acromegalic patients and normal subjects with the aim of defining the somatotroph responsiveness to peripheral (i.e., outside the blood-brain barrier) specific dopaminergic stimuli. DA (0.02 micrograms/kg/min) was infused for 180 min into 12 acromegalic patients and 10 normal subjects. DA infusion discriminated between two groups of acromegalics. In group I (n = 7), the elevated plasma GH levels (64.1 +/- 29.9 ng/ml, mean basal value +/- SEM) decreased significantly (mean overall GH inhibition, 26% reduction from basal levels; range, 10-49), whereas in group II (n = 5) plasma GH levels (29.8 +/- 12.5 ng/ml) remained elevated (mean GH variation, 8% above baseline; range, 0-15). Plasma GH concentrations showed a significant rebound above baseline values after stopping DA infusion only in group I. In contrast, the responsiveness to TRH was not significantly different between the groups (percentage increase 767 +/- 317% in group I vs. 382 +/- 210% in group II) and they were also comparable with regard to sex, age, glucose tolerance, plasma prolactin (PRL) concentrations and adenoma size. However, the mean duration of the disease was significantly (p less than 0.02) longer in group I (12.8 +/- 2.6 years) than in group II (4.5 +/- 1.5 years). Further, 3 patients with previous radiotherapy for invasive adenomas were nonresponders to DA. In normal subjects, DA infusion had no significant effect on plasma GH levels. It is concluded that: somatotroph responsiveness to DA is not a constant feature of acromegaly.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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