Post-hypophysectomy insulin response in patients with advanced breast cancer
Autor: | Athanasios Theologides, A. W. Lindall, R. B. McHugh, S. M. Hall |
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Rok vydání: | 1977 |
Předmět: |
Blood Glucose
Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Hypophysectomy Arginine medicine.medical_treatment Breast Neoplasms Breast cancer Internal medicine Insulin response medicine Humans Insulin In patient Glycemic business.industry Glucose Tolerance Test medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Endocrinology Oncology Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Pancreas business |
Zdroj: | Medical and pediatric oncology. 3(1) |
ISSN: | 0098-1532 |
Popis: | Seven postmenopausal women with metastic breast cancer underwent transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. The rate of disappearance, k*, of iv glucose and insulin following iv glucose and 1-arginine infusion was determined before and after the ablation. The k* was estimated with a linear least squares weighted regression method. The insulin secretory capacity of the pancreas before and after the ablation was evaluated with the index of insulinogenic reserve, the index representing the quantity of insulin secreted per unit of glycemic stimulus. Following iv glucose and arginine, there was no significant difference in the mean k* for glucose and insulin, before and after the ablation. The insulinogenic index before was lower than the normal. After hypophysectomy, the index decreased further for the first 30 min following iv glucose. In patients with advanced cancer the index of insulinogenic reserve is lower than normal and is suppressed further by hypophysectomy. |
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