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To determine whether hypothalamic function is normal in patients with idiopathic gonadotrophin deficiency, nine men with this syndrome were studied. Water conservation after overnight dehydration, thermoregulatory response to a cold (10 degrees C) environmental stress and prolactin secretion following chlorpromazine stimulation were investigated. In response to dehydration, maximal urinary osmolality was 1058 +/- 135 mOsm/kg (mean +/- SD) and no patient showed further increase after exogenous vasopressin administration. The patients responded to the cold stimulus by vigorous shivering and maintained their core body temperatures. Basal concentrations of prolactin which were 12.7 +/- 4.6 ng/ml increased by 15 ng/ml following Thyrotrophin-releasing hormone in six of seven men tested, indicating normal pituitary reserve. Prolactin concentrations doubled in seven of eight men who received chlorpromazine. All responses were indistinguishable from those of normal men. While a diminished secretion of gonadotrophin releasing hormone by the hypothalamus remains the most plausible cause of idiopathic gonadotrophin deficiency, our data indicate that the associated functions tested are intact in men with this syndrome.
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PMID:Hypothalamic function in men with hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism. 34 48

A 32-year-old man developed panhypopituitarism and diabetes insipidus shortly after sustaining a head injury. Hormonal investigation showed that basal prolactin levels were moderately elevated the first two years after the accident, but later returned to normal. There was no rise in prolactin after administration on chlorpromazine, and the response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone was attenuated. Basal luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone levels were low and there was no change after administration of luteinizing-hormone-releasing hormone. There was also no growth hormone elevation following arginine infusion. On the other hand, there was a normal but delayed elevation of thyrotropin in response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone. Appropriate stimulation tests showed normal responsiveness of the thyroid, adrenals and testes. These findings are compatible with an injury to the pituitary stalk, damaging the neurohypophyseal tract and affecting the blood supply to the pituitary gland.
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PMID:Pituitary insufficiency following head injury. 35 6

Administration of 1-10 mg ovine pituitary prolactin (oPRL) into the amniotic fluid of 10 rhesus monkeys in the last third of gestation consistently caused a decrease in amniotic fluid volume not seen when saline, vasopressin, or bovine serum albumin were injected into 9 other monkeys. The effects lasted for 24 h. Intraamniotic injection of 10 mg oPRL prevented or reversed a doubling of water and electrolyte content of the fetal extracellular fluid (ECF) volume in the face of hypertonic amniotic fluid. Efflux of these substances from the fetal ECF in the face of hypotonic amniotic fluid was similarly prevented or reversed by intraamniotic prolactin injection. Ovine PRL had no effect on fetal ECF water and electrolytes in the face of isotonic amniotic fluid. Possible sites of these oPRL effects were amnion, placenta, fetal lung and/or fetal gastrointestinal tract.
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PMID:Amniotic prolactin control over amniotic and fetal extracellular fluid water and electrolytes in the rhesus monkey. 40 34

Pre- and postoperative evaluation of hypothalamic-pituitary function was performed in six children, aged 5.5 to 13.3 years with craniopharyngiomas. Before surgery growth hormone deficiency (GHD) was documented in four, hypothalamic hypothyroidism in three, and secondary ACTH-deficiency and hyperprolactinaemia in one patient. Diabetes insipidus was absent in all patients. After neurosurgical treatment GHD was present in all, hypothyroidism in five, ACTH-deficiency in three, hyperprolactinaemia in three, and diabetes insipidus in four children. The study shows that all endocrine functions tested may be defective even before surgery, although diabetes insipidus seems to be a rare preoperative complaint. Surgical intervention, however, often leads to additional endocrine disorders. From the data presented here one may suggest that TRH stimulation tests, evaluation of serum prolactin, and lysin-vasopressin stimulation tests are the most useful investigations to distinguish between hypothalamic and primary pituitary disorders.
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PMID:Pre- and postoperative evaluation of hypothalamo- pituitary function in children with craniopharyngiomas. 42 59

Histamine was infused into the third or lateral ventricle of conscious hydrated goats, and urine samples were analyzed for volume, osmolality and electrolytes. Doses of 10--1000 microgram of histamine induced dose-dependent antidiuretic responses both as to the maximum osmolality and the duration of the osmolality increase. Urine osmolality began to rise within a few minutes, reached its maximum within 0.5--2 h and was elevated for 1.5--4 h, depending on the dose. Thereafter a second increase in osmolality often occurred, which lengthened the effect of histamine dose-dependently up to about 10 h with the largest dose of histamine. Histamine (50--300 microgram) and the control solution given into the lateral ventricle increased the excretion of Na+ into the urine. After the largest dose of histamine (1000 microgram), however, the excretion of Na+ was significantly lower than in the control experiments. After the larger doses of histamine, effects on motor or autonomic functions were seen. These included decreased spontaneous motor activity, increased respiratory rate, defecation and miosis. It is suggested that the site of action of histamine is central, and that the release of vasopressin through the activation of the neurosecretory system is probably involved. In addition the changes in electrolytes may suggest an involvement of the release of other factors such as prolactin.
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PMID:Antidiuresis induced by infusions of histamine into the brain ventricles of conscious hydrated goats. 42 21

The dive was carried out in the open sea to a depth of 850 fsw (26.7 ATA) for 6 days (DD 1--6) in the saturated mode, with personnel transfer capsule (PTC) excursions between 0 and 150 fsw and diver excursions between 0 and 50 fsw from the saturation base. Each diver had two excursion dives on alternate days. Although each PTC excursion lasted approximately 7 h, the actual time spent in the water averaged 10.5 min per diver. For 12 divers, daily excretion of water, electrolytes, aldosterone, and antidiuretic hormone (ADH) was studied, along with plasma composition (including prolactin), before, during, and after hyperbaric exposure. A significant increase in urine flow was observed on DD2--4 (1604 ml/day predive vs. 2300 ml/day on DD 4; P less than 0.05), after which the degree of diuresis decreased to about 1800 ml/day. Urine osmolality changed inversely with urine flow, with the lowest value of 532 mOsm/kg on DD 4. During the postdive period, both urine flow and urine osmolality returned to the predive level. The endogenous creatinine clearance was maintained at about 200 liters/day throughout the dive. The fractional excretion of Na+ remained unchanged while that of K+ increased significantly during hyperbaric exposure, thus decreasing the urinary Na+/K+ ratio. The fractional excretion of total osmotic substances showed a small hyperbaric exposure. Body weight decreased progressively during the initial 4 days of pressure exposure, equalling 2.6 kg on DD 4. These findings suggest that the observed diuresis may be accompanied by a net loss of body water. Neither the plasma prolactin level nor urinary excretion of aldosterone and ADHshowed any consistent change throughout the dive. It thus appears that, although there is a small osmotic component, the observed diuresis is primarily due to the ADH-independent inhibition of fre water reabsorption from the collecting duct by means of a mechanism yet to be identified.
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PMID:Urinary excretion of water and electrolytes during open-sea saturation diving to 850 fsw. 52 29

The stress of motion sickness was experimentally provoked by Coriolis effect. Significant and reproducible increases from the basal serum level (delta mean +/- S.E.) of antidiuretic hormone delta - ADH: 48.2 +/- 4.6 pg/ml; p less than 0.0005), of growth hormone (delta - hGH: 10.0 +/- 1.2 ng/ml; p less than 0.0005), of prolactin (delta - hPRL: 186.5 +/- 29.9 muU/ml; p less than 0.0005), and of cortisol (delta - F; 12.3 +/- 0.9 microgram%; p less than 0.0005) were observed, whereas the luteinizing hormone levels did not change significantly. The stimulation of hormone secretion induced by different degrees of motion sickness seems to correlate with the severity of motion sickness. The secretion of antidiuretic hormones is the most sensitive indicator for the stress of motion sickness whereas growth hormone, prolactin, and cortisol responses to the stress of motion sickness are more delayed and less pronounced.
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PMID:Increased secretion of growth hormone, prolactin, antidiuretic hormone, and cortisol induced by the stress of motion sickness. 62 65

A significant elevation in plasma prolactin was observed 10 min following the intravenous injection of 100 microgram of melatonin into either estrogen-progesterone (EP) primed or into nonsteroid-treated male rats. 60 min postinjection in the EP primed rat, the groups treated with 100 microgram or 10 mg of melatonin had signficantly elevated plasma prolactin levels while no effect was observed with these same doses in the nonsteroid-treated rats. Compared to diluent-treated controls, a significant elevation in plasma prolactin was observed at 10, 20 and 60 min following the intravenous injection of either 1 microgram arginine vasotocin (AVT) or 1 mg melatonin into EP primed male rats. A consistent rise in plasma prolactin was also evident after the injection of 1 microgram of either arginine vasopressin, lysine vasopressin or AVT. Oxytocin had no effect on plasma prolactin values. The intravenous administration of 1 microgram of (deamino-1,6 dicarba, 8-arginine)-vasotocin caused a significant elevation of plasma prolactin 10 and 20 min after injection. However, the injection of another analogue of AVT, (4-leucine, 8-arginine)-vasotocin, had no effect on prolactin release at the time points measured.
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PMID:Effects of melatonin and natural and synthetic analogues of arginine vasotocin on plasma prolactin levels in adult male rats. 66 73

Somatotropic, thyrotropic, gonadotropic and corticotropic functions in 10 patients with idiopathic hypopituitary dwarfism (IH) were investigated. The patients were divided into two groups: Group I (5 patients) had normal plasma T4 levels, and Group II (5 patients) had T4 levels of less than 4.6 microgram/dl. In Group I three cases had isolated growth hormone (GH) deficiency and two cases had GH and gonadotropin (Gn) deficiencies; in Group II the 5 cases showed multiple anterior pituitary hormone deficiencies. In Group II, the plasma thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) was 4.1-9.4 muU/ml and the response to thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) was greatly delayed and prolonged, with a maximum after 120 min instead of 15 min. The basal prolactin (PRL) level in Group II was 12-31 ng/ml, which was significantly higher than normal (P less than 0.001). In 4 cases in Group II, the plasma cortisol level increased 120 min after the infusion of lysine-vasopressin, whereas oral administration of metyrapone and hypoglycemia induced by insulin did not increase the plasma cortisol levels. From these findings it is concluded that hypothalamic lesions caused the pituitary hormone deficiencies in 4 Group II cases, and Group I may tentatively be differentiated from Group II by T4 determinations.
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PMID:Hypothalamic-pituitary functions in patients with idiopathic pituitary dwarfism. Further evidence for hypophysiotropic human deficiencies. 67 52

The cause of a seventeen-year-old female patient with septo-optic dysplasia and pituitary dwarfism is presented. Mental retardatin and epilepsy, in addition to absence of the septum pellucidum, point to a widespread lesion of the central nervous system. There is unilateral hypoplasia of the optic nerve. She is of small stature. The dynamic pituitary tests point to deficiency of GH, TSH and ACTH, and an adequate reserve of prolactin, gonadotropins and vasopressin. TSH insufficiency is probably of primary pituitary origin.
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PMID:Pituitary function in a patient with septo-optic dysplasia and pituitary dwarfism (Kaplan-Grumbach-Hoyt syndrome). 67 55


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