Short-term night-shift working mimics the pituitary-adrenocortical dysfunction in chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1867-1870

  Leese, Graham ^a,b   Chattington, Paula ^a   Fraser, William ^a   Vora, Jiten ^a   Edwards, Richard ^a   Williams, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NIGHT WORK; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; KINETICS; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; TRANSCORTIN; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 0029930213     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.5.1867     Document Type: Article

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