Pharm 1 Pituitary Flashcards
Growth Hormone regulation
++ GRH
– Somatostatin (SRIF, somatotropin release-inhibiting factor)
Somatostatin functions (GI, brain)
- Suppress basically every GI hormone
- Inhibit GH, TSH secretion (not synthesis)
Somatostatin regulation
++ low pH
Posterior pituitary hormones
Vasopressin (ADH)
Growth hormone synonym
Somatotropin
Growth hormone replacement
Species specific (only human)
- Risk of CJD
- Use synthetic (recombinant rhGH)
Growth hormone feedback mechanism
Liver IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor)
2 ways to induce SRIF
IGF-1
B-agonist
GH actions
- Synthesize chondroitin and collagen
- Grow bone and soft tissue
- Renal retain N, K, PO4
GH MOA (important)
Cytokine membrane receptors ->
a) IGF-1 (mitogen & antiapoptogen)
b) + triglyceride hydrolysis, insulin resistance, protein synthesis
IGF-1 v IGF-2
Adult vs infant
GH interaction with diabetes
Causes more problems in morning (GH secreted at night)
Most common pituitary tumor
Prolactinoma
Age associated GH pathology
Up to 1/3 of elderly
Gigantism
GH hypersecretion before fusion of epiphysis
Acromegaly enlargements
Head, face, hands, feet, thorax
Acromegaly clinical
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Hypogonadism
- Glucose intolerance and hyperinsulinemia
- Heat intolerance, sweating, fatigue, lethargy
rhGH therapeutic uses
- GH deficient patients
- Very short children with normal GH
- HIV related wasting or cachexia
Prader-Willi syndrome
Parental allele not expressed (chromosome 15 unbalanced)
-Retardation, obesity, hypogonadism, hypotonia
AngelMan’s syndrome
Maternal allele not expressed (15)
-Retardation, inappropriate laughter, ataxic gait, seizures
Prader-willi and AngelMan’s pathology
Disorder of genomic Imprinting (silencing of paternal/maternal alleles)
-rhGH-
administration
adverse effects
- Subcutaneous
- Carpal tunnel, arthralgia in adults
- few AE in children
- NO hyperglycemia
-rhIGH-1-
receptor
Tetrameric receptor autophosphorylation (like insulin)
-rhIGH-1-
indication
administration
contraindications
- Children who don’t respond to GH
- Subcutaneously before or after meal (prevent hypoglycemia)
- Neoplasia; closed Epiphyses
Somatostatin drug
Octreotide
Octreotide advantages over somatostatin
Increased half life (1.7 hours v 1-3 minutes)
Somatostatin production
- Hypothalamic anterior periventricular nucleus
- Pancreas Delta cells