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Growth hormone stimulation testing in both short and normal statured children: use of an immunofunctional assay.

Abstract：

:Accurate interpretation of the results of GH stimulation tests is of pivotal importance not only in the evaluation of the etiology of growth retardation in children but also in the selection of the best candidates for GH therapy. We performed this study to test a novel immunofunctional GH ( IFGH) assay that makes use of the concept that one GH molecule dimerizes two GH receptors and compared the results with those obtained using two GH assays, the Diagnostic Systems Laboratories ELISA and a Hybritech immunoradiometric assay in 19 children with short stature undergoing routine GH stimulation testing. We also tested 13 normally statured control children to revisit the issue of what constitutes normal GH responses to stimuli, using all three assays and arginine and either L-dopa or insulin-induced hypoglycemia as secretagogues. Concentrations of IGF-I, IGF binding protein-3, and acid labile subunit were measured as well. There was a significant correlation between peak IFGH and Diagnostic Systems Laboratories ELISA GH responses to stimuli (r(2) = 0.93) as well as between the Diagnostic Systems Laboratories ELISA and Hybritech immunoradiometric assay (r(2) = 0.91). There were no significant differences between the short stature and normal group in peak or mean GH concentrations regardless of the assay used; however, the IGF-I, IGF binding protein-3, and acid labile subunit concentrations were substantially lower in the short stature group. There was a wide spectrum of GH concentrations in the normal group; approximately 50% of the children had peak GH concentrations <7 ng/mL, approximately 30% <5 ng/mL, and two pubertal normal subjects peaked to only 2 ng/mL with use of both the ELISA and IFGH assays. We conclude that 1) sensitive GH assays, ELISA and immunoradiometric assay, accurately detect a GH capable of generating a biologic signal comparable to an IFGH and 2) that normal GH stimulation test results can be substantially lower than previously accepted. GH-dependent growth factors may be more sensitive indicators of GH sufficiency than GH concentrations in response to pharmacologic stimuli.

journal_name

Pediatr Res

journal_title

Pediatric research

authors

Mauras N,Walton P,Nicar M,Welch S,Rogol AD

doi

10.1203/00006450-200011000-00010

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-11-01 00:00:00

pages

614-8

issue

eissn

0031-3998

issn

1530-0447

journal_volume

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Growth hormone stimulation testing in both short and normal statured children: use of an immunofunctional assay.