Outcome of a four-year randomized study of daily versus three times weekly somatropin treatment in prepubertal naive growth hormone-deficient children

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1806-1809

  MacGillivray, Margaret H ^a   Baptista, Joyce ^b   Johanson, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AGE; BONE MATURATION; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH RATE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBERTY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0029940066     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.5.1806     Document Type: Article

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