Stimulation of in-vivo growth hormone secretion in young chickens by rat hypothalamic growth hormone-releasing factor and synthetic analogues

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C. G. Scanes
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S. Harvey
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ABSTRACT

Rat hypothalamic GH-releasing factor (rhGRF), at doses between 0·1 and 10 μg/kg, increased plasma GH concentrations in immature domestic fowl 5–10 min after i.v. injection. Sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia blunted the GH responses to rhGRF, although in both conscious and anaesthetized chicks the maximal responses were induced by a dose of 1 μg rhGRF/kg. The stimulatory effect of rhGRF on in-vivo GH secretion was less than that provoked by corresponding doses of human pancreatic GRF, but greater than that elicited by two rhGRF analogues, (Nle27)-rhGRF(1–32) and (Nle27)-rhGRF(1–29). These results demonstrate that the chicken pituitary is responsive to mammalian GRF and provide evidence of structure-activity relationships of GRF in the domestic fowl.

J. Endocr. (1986) 108, 413–416

 

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