Inferior petrosal sinus sampling in healthy human subjects reveals a unilateral corticotropin-releasing hormone-induced arginine vasopressin release associated with ipsilateral adrenocorticotropin secretion

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2045-2050

  Kalogeras, Konstantine T ^a,b,c,d   Nieman, Lynnette K ^b   Friedman, Theodore C ^b,e   Doppman, John L ^f   Cutler Jr , Gordon B ^b   Chrousos, George P ^b   Wilder, Ronald L ^c   Gold, Philip W ^a   Yanovski, Jack A ^b,f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenohypophysis; Hypothalamus; Median eminence; Neurohypophysis; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; OXYTOCIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CRANIAL SINUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PETROUS BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS VENOSUS; VASOPRESSIN RELEASE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; PETROSAL SINUS SAMPLING;

EID: 0029913757     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI118640     Document Type: Article

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