Growth hormone responses to graded doses of apomorphine HCl in schizophrenia

Cleghorn, J.M.; Brown, G.M.; Brown, P.J.; Kaplan, R.D.; Mitton, J.

Biological Psychiatry 18(8): 875-885

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0006-3223
PMID: 6137249
Document Number: 213932
Growth hormone (GH) responses to graded doses of apomorphine HCl (APO) were established in 14 normal males, ages 18-50, and 10 drug-free schizophrenic (SCZ) subjects; 99% confidence intervals were calculated for normal subjects' GH responses to graded doses of APO. Patients' GH peak levels were found to be outside the interval only when they had positive symptoms of psychosis. When they are actively psychotic, the schizophrenics' GH response to small doses of APO is more sensitive than that of normals.

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