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- Title
Testosterone supplementation in older men restrains insulin-like growth factor's dose-dependent feedback inhibition of pulsatile growth hormone secretion.
- Authors
Veldhuis, Johannes D; Keenan, Daniel M; Bailey, Joy N; Adeniji, Adenborduin; Miles, John M; Paulo, Remberto; Cosma, Mihaela; Soares-Welch, Cacia
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Pulsatile GH secretion declines in older men. The causal mechanisms are unknown. Candidates include deficient feedforward (stimulation) by endogenous secretagogues and excessive feedback (inhibition) by GH or IGF-I due to age and/or relative hypoandrogenemia.<bold>Hypothesis: </bold>Testosterone (T) supplementation in healthy older men will restrain negative feedback by systemic concentrations of IGF-I.<bold>Subjects: </bold>Twenty-four healthy men (ages, 50 to 75 yr; body mass index, 24 to 30 kg/m(2)) participated in the study.<bold>Methods: </bold>We performed a prospectively randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled assessment of the impact of pharmacological T supplementation on GH responses to randomly ordered separate-day injections of recombinant human IGF-I doses of 0, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 mg/m(2).<bold>Analysis: </bold>Deconvolution and approximate entropy analyses of pulsatile, basal, and entropic (pattern-sensitive) modes of GH secretion were conducted.<bold>Results: </bold>Recombinant human IGF-I injections 1) elevated mean and peak serum IGF-I concentrations dose-dependently (both P < 0.001); 2) suppressed pulsatile GH secretion (P = 0.003), burst mass (P = 0.025), burst number (P = 0.005), interpulse variability (P = 0.032), and basal GH secretion (P = 0.009); and 3) increased secretory pattern regularity (P = 0.020). T administration did not alter experimentally controlled IGF-I concentrations, but it elevated mean GH concentrations (P = 0.015) and stimulated pulsatile GH secretion (frequency P = 0.037, mass per burst P = 0.038). Compared with placebo, T attenuated exogenous IGF-I's inhibition of GH secretory-burst mass (P < 0.038) without restoring pulse number, basal secretion, or pattern regularity.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The capability of systemic T to mute IGF-I feedback on pulsatile GH secretion suggests a novel mechanism for augmenting GH production.
- Subjects
COMPARATIVE studies; DOSE-effect relationship in pharmacology; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REGRESSION analysis; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; SOMATOMEDIN; TESTOSTERONE; EVALUATION research; HUMAN growth hormone; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; BLIND experiment; CHEMICAL inhibitors
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2009, Vol 94, Issue 1, p246
- ISSN
0021-972X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1210/jc.2008-1516