Twenty-four hour melatonin pattern in acromegaly: Effect of acute octreotide administration
Twenty-four hour melatonin pattern in acromegaly: Effect of acute octreotide administration
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DOI:
10.1007/bf03346890
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发表时间:
1997-03-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Bellastella, A
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作者:
Sinisi, AA;Pasquali, D;Bellastella, A
We investigated the melatonin (MT) circadian rhythm before and after somatostatin (octreotide) acute administration in ten subjects (4 M, 6 F; 23-52 yr old) with active acromegaly due to pituitary microadenoma. Blood samples were drawn every 2 hours over a 48-h span; after 24-h basal blood collection, octreotide (Sandostatin, Sandoz) 100 mu g sc/8 h was administered. As control, 7 healthy adult subjects (3M, 4F; 26-50 yr old) were studied in basal condition over a 24-h span. Plasma MT and GH levels were measured by RIA in each sample, IGF-1 levels were measured by immunoradiometric assay in basal and after octreotide morning samples. The comparisons were made by Mann-U-Whitney and Wilcoxon test as appropriate; the existence of a MT circadian rhythm was validated by cosinor analysis; GH and MT values were correlated by Pearson's correlation coefficient. All of 7 control subjects and 2 of 10 acromegalics had significant 24-h MT rhythm. The area under curve (AUC), mesor and amplitude of the MT rhythms in acromegalics were significantly lower than in the controls (p