Demonstration of a lack of racial difference in secretion of growth hormone despite a racial difference in bone mineral density in premenopausal women - A Clinical Research Center study

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1023-1026

  Wright, Nancy M ^a   Papadea, Nick ^a   Willi, Steven ^a   Veldhuis, Johannes D ^c   Pandey, Janardan P ^a   Key, L Lyndon ^a   Bell, Norman H ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CAUCASIAN; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BONE DENSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GM ALLOTYPES; MALE; PREMENOPAUSE;

EID: 0029913481     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.3.1023     Document Type: Article

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