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ABSTRACT.: The nocturnal serum of 13 nongrowth hormone deficient, hyposomatomedinemic short children and of 12 normal children of average height was analyzed by both polyclonal and biclonal radioimmunoassays. The biclonal/polyclonal ratio for immunochemical grade human growth hormone was 1.0, but for the nocturnal sera in both groups, this ratio was significantly less than 1.0 (range 0.5-1.2, average 0.7-0.8). The ratio did not differ significantly between the two groups of children.
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Rudman, D., Chawla, R. & Kutner, M. Heterogeneity of Growth Hormone in the Nocturnal Serum of Children. Pediatr Res 19, 981–985 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198510000-00002
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198510000-00002
