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FIGURE 9-22.
Gold's deconvolution analysis of the growth hormone data shown in Figure 9-6. This calculation
assumed a single elimination half-life of 20 minutes. The units of GH secretion are ng/ml/min.
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FIGURE 9-23.
Gold's method of deconvolution of the luteinizing hormone data shown in Figure 9-5. This
calculation assumed a single elimination half-life of 50 minutes. The units of LH secretion are mIU/
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ones. The secretion appears to drop to nearly zero between some of the
small secretion events, so it seems the contribution caused by basal
secretion is either negligible or zero.
Figure 9-23 presents the Gold's deconvolution of the LH data shown in
Figure 9-5 assuming a 50-minute elimination half-life. In this case, it
appears there are seven or eight large secretion events. There also seem
to be numerous small secretion events or perhaps even an elevated basal
secretion. Because of the measurement errors within the data, an
elevated constant basal secretion might look like a large number of very
small secretion events.
