The effects of growth hormone replacement therapy on overnight metabolic fuels in hypopituitary patients

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-24

  Kousta, Eleni ^a   Chrisoulidou, Alexandra ^b   Lawrence, Natasha J ^a   Anyaoku, Victor ^a   Al Shoumer, Kamal A S ^a   Johnston, D G ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEMALE; GLYCEROL; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0001872167     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2000.00862.x     Document Type: Article

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