The syndrome of impaired GH secretion (GH deficiency) in childhood and adolescence had
been identified at the end of the 19th century. Its non-acquired variant (naGHD) is, at …

GH is believed to be widely employed in sports as a performance-enhancing substance. Its
use in athletic competition is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and athletes are …

Great interest is currently shown for the contribution of nutrition to optimize training and
athletic performance, and a considerable debate exists about the potential ergogenic value …

Although fertility is frequently impaired in women with acromegaly, pregnancy is apparently
becoming more common due to improvement in acromegaly treatment as well as in fertility …

Introduction: As pregnancy is rare in women with acromegaly, only case reports and few
series have been published. Areas covered: All case reports and publications dealing with …

Over the past few years, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has focused its efforts on
detecting not only small prohibited molecules, but also larger endogenous molecules such …

Background: hGH has been widely abused as a doping agent in sports for many years.
There are some important approaches for the detection of hGH doping, and the ratio of 22 …

Twenty kilodalton human growth hormone (20K-GH) is the second most abundant GH
isoform after the twenty-two kilodalton human growth hormone (22 K-GH) isoform. 20K-GH …

Detecting recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) abuse in sport remains one of the
major challenges in doping control. We have compared two different approaches to detect …

Doping is at least as old as the ancient Olympics. Substances taken to improve athletic
performance ranged from stimulants to hallucinogenic plant substances, but more recently …