Serum levels of insulin-like growth factor I and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 1 correlate with serum free testosterone and sex hormone binding globulin levels in healthy young and middle-aged men

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 659-664

  Erfurth, Eva Marie T ^a,c   Hagmar, Lars E ^a   Sääf, Maria ^a   Hall, Kerstin ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONAD FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029955199     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1996.731552.x     Document Type: Article

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