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Background Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) present with reduced serum insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I). Anti-inflammatory treatment with prednisolone or infliximab ameliorates symptoms and increases circulating IGF-I, but prednisolone induces catabolism, whereas infliximab may promote protein synthesis. Recently, stanniocalcin-2 (STC2) was discovered as a novel inhibitor of the...
Exogenous glucocorticoids may suppress linear growth by affecting the diurnal secretory rhythm of GH.To assess whether the timing of exogenous glucocorticoid administration affects GH secretion in children.Four girls and four boys aged 10.6 to 15.8 (mean 13.2) years with normal weight and height and pubertal stages I–IV were studied in an open randomized 2-period cross-over trial, with a 1-day un-in,...
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