Abstract
Serum prolactin, parathyroid hormone, P and Ca serum levels were measured in 15 patients (12 women and 3 men) with hyperprolactinemia, and in 6 normal male volunteers who underwent a TRH test (100 micrograms by rapid iv injection) in order to obtain a short-term pharmacologically-induced hyperprolactinemia. A pituitary gland graft under the kidney capsule was carried out on 26 Sprague-Dawley male rats, which became hyperprolactinemic since the transplanted pituitary was stripped of the inhibitory hypothalamic control. Another group of 10 rats was injected with L-sulpiride (0.1 mg/kg). The serum PTH levels in patients and in subjects with induced hyperprolactinemia were within the normal range and there was no correlation between serum PRL and PTH levels. The same occurred both in transplanted and L-sulpiride injected rats. Our results suggest that prolactin does not modify PTH secretion in vivo and therefore, in contrast with previous data, it should not be considered a physiologically relevant secretagogue for parathyroid hormone.
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