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Effects of 36 hour fasting on GH/IGF-I axis and metabolic parameters in patients with simple obesity. Comparison with normal subjects and hypopituitary patients with severe GH deficiency

Mauro Maccario, Gianluca Aimaretti, Silvia Grottoli, Carlotta Gauna, F. Tassone, G. Corneli, Ruth Rossetto, Z. Wu, CJ Strasburger, Ezio Ghigo

International Journal of Obesity · 2001 · 39 citations · 37 references

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Liver-derived insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) is the principal source of IGF-I in blood but is not required for postnatal body growth in mice

Klara Sjögren, Jun‐Li Liu, K. Blad et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 954 citations

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Fasting enhances growth hormone secretion and amplifies the complex rhythms of growth hormone secretion in man.

K. Ho, Johannes D. Veldhuis, Michael L. Johnson et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1988 · 502 citations · Full text

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Dual Defects in Pulsatile Growth Hormone Secretion and Clearance Subserve the Hyposomatotropism of Obesity in Man*

Johannes D. Veldhuis, Ali Iranmanesh, Ken K. Y. Ho et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 1991 · 482 citations

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The Diagnosis of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults

Ken K. Y. Ho, David Hoffman · Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology · 1997 · 429 citations

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Reduction of Plasma Immunoreactive Somatomedin C during Fasting in Humans*

David R. Clemmons, Anne Klibanski, Louis E. Underwood et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 1981 · 366 citations

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