Heritability of cortisol responses to human corticotropin-releasing hormone, ergometry, and psychological stress in humans

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 1526-1530

  Kirschbaum, Clemens ^b   Wust S ^a   Faig, H G ^a   Hellhammer, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ERGOMETRY; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; STATISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0026749563     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.75.6.1464659     Document Type: Article

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