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Article: Running-induced alterations in growth hormone, prolactin, triiodothyronine, and thyroxine concentrations in trained and untrained men and women.
- Article from:
- Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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The effects of exercise on hypothalamic-pituitary function have been of interest to numerous investigators (Bullen et al., 1984; Dulac et al., 1987; Karagiorgos, Garcia, & Brooks, 1979). However, disparities and questions have emerged from previous investigations, especially concerning the effects of gender and training on anterior pituitary hormones. Growth hormone (GH), for instance, has been reported to have a greater response to exercise in trained subjects (Bunt, Boileau, Bahr, & Nelson, 1986), whereas others have reported a lesser GH response in trained subjects (Hartley et al., 1972; Sutton, Young, Lazarus, Hickie, & Maksvytis, 1969). There is some evidence that ...