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  • Title: [Dynamics of beta-lipotropin and beta-endorphin levels in Itsenko-Cushing disease patients being treated with the antiserotonin preparation cyproheptadine (peritol) and chloditan].
    Author: Slavnov VN, Valueva GV, Luchitskiĭ EV.
    Journal: Ter Arkh; 1984; 56(9):119-22. PubMed ID: 6096979.
    Abstract:
    The authors provide the data on the changes in the blood content of opioid neuropeptides in patients with Icenko-Cushing's disease treated with an antiserotonin drug peritol. The high content of beta-endorphine and beta-lipotropin in the patients' blood was one of the factors determining activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal system. The treatment of patients with Icenko-Cushing's disease by peritol led to a decrease in the blood content of beta-endorphine and beta-lipotropin, promoting a clinical and laboratory remission in 60% of patients. Some patients treated with peritol did not develop a clinical remission. This indicates the necessity of acting on the metabolism of other monoamines involved in the modulation of the action of neuropeptides on the hypothalamus-pituitary system.
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