title: Some properties of the plasma hGH activity in patients with Laron-type dwarfism determined by a radioreceptor assay using human liver tissue.
abstract: A radioreceptor assay for human growth hormone (hGH) using the 100,000-g pellet of human liver tissue homogenates obtained from a 13-year-old male donor of a kidney transplantation is described. The dilution curves of the plasma hGH of 6 patients with Laron-type dwarfism (LTD) as well as those of the plasma hGH from 1 normal child and 2 acromegalic patients were all found to be parallel to the standard curve, suggesting that in the LTD syndrome the circulating hGH is biologically active.
mesh_terms: D000172:Acromegaly / Q000097:blood; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004393:Dwarfism, Pituitary / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008875:Middle Aged; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D011869:Radioligand Assay; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D013006:Growth Hormone