Deficiency of the growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor-I axis potentially involved in age-related alterations in body composition

Gerontology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 330-338

  Boonen, S ^a   Lesaffre, E ^a   Aerssens, J ^a   Pelemans, W ^a   Dequeker, J ^a   Bouillon, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body composition; Elderly; Insulin like growth factor I; Total body bone mineral content; Total body lean mass

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; GLOBULIN; GROWTH FACTOR; PARATHYROID HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE ATROPHY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BONE DENSITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0029857279     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: 14230003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000213811     Document Type: Article

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