title: [Studies of stress-conditioned somatotropin secretion. Discussion note on the paper of F.E. Ulrich, U. Schneyer and K. Seige, Ber.Ges.Inn.Med.10,92 (1976)].
abstract: Before the beginning of a glucose infusion test already in the test preperiod a stress-induced STH-increase could be observed in 76 of 153 protodiabetics. There was no statistically clear relation between the STH basal value and the size of the STH reaction. The stress-induced STH reaction neither can be classified to the degree of the carbohydrate intolerance nor to the size of overweight. In a normal STH reaction during the glucose infusion test in about two thirds of the cases a stress-induced STH increase is observed. On the other hand a rigid STH reaction is associated with a stress-induced STH increase only in 21% of the cases and a paradoxal STH reaction in 41% of the cases. Only in 47 (30.7%) of 153 protodiabetics a STH increase was to be observed before and after the end of the glucose infusion. There was no statistically certain relation between the size of the stress-induced increase of STH and the STH reaction in the posthyperglycemic phase. Quality and quantity of the STH reaction before the beginning of a glucose infusion do not allow any conclusions to the following pattern of STH reaction.
mesh_terms: D001786:Blood Glucose; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology*
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin; D013006:Growth Hormone
vernacular_title: Untersuchungen zur stressbedingten Wachstumshormonausschüttung. Diskussionsbemerkung zur Arbeit von F.E. Ulrich, U. Schneyer und K. Seige, Ber. Ges. Inn. Med. 10,92 (1976).