The effect of repeated administration of hexarelin, a growth hormone releasing peptide, and growth hormone releasing hormone on growth hormone responsivity

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 555-562

  Massoud, Ahmed F ^a   Hindmarsh, Peter C ^a   Matthews, David R ^b   Brook, Charles G D ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HEXARELIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029948675     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1996.722543.x     Document Type: Article

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