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Abstract
Although basal plasma concentrations of dopamine, noradrenaline, and adrenaline in patients with prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma are normal, responses to oral bromocriptine are not. 1 and 2 h after bromocriptine, plasma concentrations of these three catecholamines are decreased in normal men but not in patients with hyperprolactinaemia secondary to prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma or in normoprolactinaemic patients in whom a pituitary adenoma has been removed. Patients with prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma probably have a defect in the regulation of brain catecholamine metabolism.Entities:
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Year: 1978 PMID： 81414 DOI： 10.1016/s0140-6736(78)91572-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN： 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321