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factors that increase and deccrease GH scretion

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  #2

Hypoglycemia, sleep, exercise, and stress increase growth hormone secretion, whereas elevated free fatty acids would decrase growth hormone secretion.

  #3

sleep, stress, hypoglycemia, starvation, exercise and hormones related to puberty increase and hyperglycemia pregnancy obesity somatostatina and somatomedins decrease it.
sakaki can u quote the reference for free fatty acids as stimulus for decreasing GH secretion?

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  #4

It can be found in Francis Greenspan and Gardner's Basic and Clinical Endocrinology (published by Lange), or Patricia Molina's Endocrine Physiology (also published by Lange). It's just in a table format, so there isn't any rationale given.

  #5

It makes sense...free FA reduce the need for blood glucose (which GH stimulates). From a purely metabolic standpoint, that is.







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