Serum concentrations of free and total insulin-like growth factor-1, IGF binding proteins -1 and -3 and IGFBP-3 protease activity in boys with normal or precocious puberty

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 515-523

  Juul, Anders ^a   Flyvbjerg, Allan ^b   Frystyk, Jan ^b   Müller, Jørn ^a   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; RELEFACT; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; BUSERELIN; CHILD; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEINS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; PUBERTY; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029996833     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1996.711531.x     Document Type: Article

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