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To develop a test of pituitary-thyroid responsiveness to thyrotropin-releasing hormone that would obviate the need for measuring serum thyrotropin, we determined serum thyrotropin, thyroxine, and tri-iodothyronine concentrations before and at frequent intervals after the intramuscular administration of 2 mg of thyrotropin-releasing hormone in normal subjects and in patients with a variety of thyroid disorders. In specimens obtained four and five hours after administration of the hormone to normal subjects, serum thyroxine concentration increased 2.4 plus or minus 0.7 mug per 100 ml (mean plus or minus S.D.) over base-line values, the magnitude of increase being greater than 1.5 mug per 100 ml in 32 of 34 subjects. Serum thyroxine concentrations after administration of thyrotropin-releasing hormone did not increase in 11 hyperthyroid patients. Of 13 with hypothyroidism, increases in 12 were 0 to 0.7 mug per 100 ml; in one the increment was 1.2 mug per 100 ml. Measurement of the serum thyroxine response to intramuscular thyrotropin-releasing hormone will usually suffice to determine the integrity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid complex.
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