This study suggests that the high levels of hCG-H observed in first-trimester maternal sera are mainly from invasive evct origin, reflecting the early trophoblast invasion process.
The paradoxical GH response to TRH observed in certain adolescents with constitutional tall stature is associated with a 60% fall in plasma levels of somatostatin. Conversely, those tall subjects who do not show a GH increase after TRH, or during a saline control infusion maintain steady levels of somatostatin in plasma. It is thus hypothesized that the GH release after TRH is due to a decreased inhibitory effect of somatostatin at the pituitary level and that this reduced effect may play an aetiological role in certain children with 'constitutional' tall stature.
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