Aging and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to challenge in humans

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 233-260

  Seeman, Teresa E ^a   Robbins, Richard J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

17 HYDROXYCORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; TETRACOSACTIDE; TETRACOSACTIDE ZINC PHOSPHATE;

AGED; AGING; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CUSHING DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AGING; ANIMALS; FEEDBACK; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; PITUITARY GLAND;

EID: 0028297973     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.15.2.233     Document Type: Review

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