Abstract | OBJECTIVE: DESIGN: Twenty acromegalic patients and nineteen age- and gender-matched normal subjects participated in this study. The patients were treated for 21 months with depot long-acting microsphere-enclosed octreotide ( Sandostatin-LAR). Previously, all the patients were treated s.c. with octreotide t.i.d. After a 2-week wash-out period (baseline) the patients received the first i.m. injection of the long-acting octreotide. The first two injections were administered at 60-day intervals; thereafter the injections were at 28-day intervals. METHODS: RESULTS: In the 2-week wash-out period GHBP levels decreased from 1.13 +/- 0.17 to 0.92 +/- 0.15 nmol/l (P < 0.05). During the 21-months treatment, GHBP increased again to 1.10 +/- 0.16 nmol/l. In the age- and gender-matched control group GHBP levels were significantly higher at all times (1.95 +/- 0.21 nmol/l. P(all) < 0.02). Mean levels of 8-h GH decreased from 12.6 +/- 2.58 microg/l at baseline to 1.97 +/- 0.20 microg/l after 21 months of treatment (P < 0.05). Mean 8-h GH levels were unchanged during long-acting octreotide treatment compared with levels during s.c. treatment (1.97 +/- 0.20 microg/l and 1.90 +/- 0.20 microg/l respectively). In fasting blood samples GH-complexed GHBP ranged from 13.8 +/- 2.4% (9 months) to 25.4 +/- 4.5% (baseline) of total GHBP. Serum IGF-I increased from 367 +/- 45 to 764 +/- 80 microg/l (P < 0.05) during the 2-week wash-out period and decreased to 290 +/- 35 microg/l (P < 0.05) after 21 months of treatment with long-acting octreotide. IGF-I levels after 21 months were significantly lower than during s.c. octreotide treatment (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Serum GHBP levels are similar during treatment with long-acting octreotide as compared with regular octreotide. Furthermore, significant changes in GHBP can occur within 2 weeks. Finally, in addition to the lowering effect on GH levels, the induced increase in GHBP levels may imply a further advantage in octreotide treatment of acromegaly. circulating GH bound to GHBP may less readily reach the tissues.
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Authors | S Fisker, A Kaal, M Montini, A Pedroncelli, G Pagani, H Orskov |
Journal | European journal of endocrinology
(Eur J Endocrinol)
Vol. 136
Issue 1
Pg. 61-6
(Jan 1997)
ISSN: 0804-4643 [Print] England |
PMID | 9037128
(Publication Type: Clinical Trial, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Chemical References |
- Carrier Proteins
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I
- Growth Hormone
- Octreotide
- somatotropin-binding protein
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Topics |
- Acromegaly
(blood, drug therapy)
- Adult
- Aged
- Carrier Proteins
(blood)
- Female
- Growth Hormone
(blood)
- Humans
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I
(metabolism)
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Octreotide
(therapeutic use)
- Time Factors
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