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Science 19 November 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3699, pp. 1051 - 1053
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3699.1051
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Growth Hormone: Important Role in Muscular Exercise in Adults

W. M. Hunter 1, C. C. Fonseka 1, and R. Passmore 1

1 Medical Research Council Clinical Endocrinology Research Unit and Physiology Department, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Measurement by radio-immunoassay of growth hormone in the plasma of adults showed consistently low concentrations in subjects in bed in the morning. Exercise caused marked increases except when the subjects ingested carbohydrate during the exercise.


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