Studies on pituitary hormones and releasing hormones in depression and sexual impotence.

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the studies of influence pituitary hormones and releasing in depression sexual impotence. Studies over last few years signify a novel starting point biological psychiatry. Besides question whether have therapeutical effects or not psychiatric disorders, disorders can now be extensively studied, which has been facilitated by developing radioimmunoassays. The raises question, animal experiments biogenic amines hypothalamic-pituitary axis could demonstrated human, too. was studied measuring plasma concentration some healthy subjects after giving precursors catecholamines serotonin p-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA), inhibitor biosyntheses serotonin. On other hand it is observed these that growth-hormone (GH) response to oral intravenous L-3, 4-dihydroxy-phenylalanine (DOPA) variable.