Hormonal responses during various phases of autoimmune adrenal failure: No evidence for 21-hydroxylase enzyme activity inhibition in vivo

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2801-2804

  Boscaro, Marco ^a   Betterle, Corrado ^a   Volpato, Marina ^a   Fallo, Francesco ^a   Furmaniak, Jadwiga ^b   Smith, Bernard Rees ^b   Sonino, Nicoletta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b RSR LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENIN; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 0029830129     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.8.2801     Document Type: Article

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