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The somatopause
What extends or stops statural growth?
What stops or extends statural growth?
What stops or extends statural growth?
Brain controls of GH secretion
What else stops statural growth?
Can exercise affect statural growth?
Can exercise affect statural growth?
Exercise-induced weight gain is due to whole-body growth
Nutritional control of statural growth
What causes acceleration of growth in exercising hamsters?
Can exercise stimulate statural growth?
Can exercise stimulate statural growth in humans?
Can exercise increase GH pulsatility in humans?
Can exercise increase GH pulsatility in humans?
What regulates reparative growth?
What regulates reparative growth?
What is hypertrophic growth?
What controls hypertrophic growth?
GH is not necessary for hypertrophic growth (body building)
Does GH administration increase hypertrophic growth?
What is the function of GH in hypertrophic growth?
What is the function of exercise-induced GH surges?
Is growth programmed or is it determined by the environment?
Change in pulsatile GH secretion with age
Statural or incremental growth in humans
Change in total GH secretion with age
Somatopause
Somatopause
Impact of somatopause
Is somatopause primary or secondary?
Could accumulation of (visceral) fat contribute to GH decline?
Is change in body composition primary or secondary?
Are aging changes in body composition due to changes in GH secretion?
Causes of somatopause: decreased estradiol secretion?
Causes of somatopause: decreased testosterone secretion?
Other possible causes/consequences of somatopause
Some determinants of reduced reparative growth with aging
How dose exercise increase GH pulsatility in old humans?
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