Secretion of thyrotropin with reduced concanavalin-a-binding activity in patients with severe nonthyroid illness

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1987, Pages 942-945

  Lee, Hsin Yu ^a,b   Suhl, Jeremiah ^a,b   Pekary, Eugene ^a,b   Hershman, Jerome M ^a,b  

^a Reproductive Endocrine Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

DRUG ACTIVITY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOASSAY;

ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCANAVALIN A; HEART DISEASES; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGE; PROTEIN BINDING; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 0023620127     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem-65-5-942     Document Type: Article

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