GH secretion by arginine stimulus: the effect of both low doses and oral arginine administered before standard test.
Small arginine doses (2 ml of 10% - 200 mg - arginine monohydrochloride i.v. administered) are capable of provoking a significant GH secretion. No correlation was found between GH peak observed after this administration and that observed after a standard arginine stimulus (24.8 g) performed subsequently. GH response to a standard arginine stimulus was blunted, differently from the response to insulin stimulus, by a previous oral arginine administration.
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