GGrantIndex
← Search

FEEDBACK &METABOLIC CLEARANCE OF IGF-1 AND SEX STEROID

$0M01FY2000RRNIH

University Of Virginia Charlottesville, Charlottesville VA

Investigators

Linked publications & trials

Abstract

This study in older men and women tests two hypotheses: (i) the insulin-like growth factor, IGF, suppresses growth hormone (GH) less in the presence of sex-steroid hormones than in their absence; and (ii) sex-steroid hormones increase the metabolic clearance rate of IGF-I, but not GH.

View original record on NIH RePORTER →