Components of biological variation, including seasonality, in blood concentrations of TSH, TT3, FT4, PRL, cortisol and testosterone in healthy volunteers

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 587-598

  Maes, M ^a,b,c,e   Mommen, K ^a   Hendrickx, D ^a   Peeters, D ^c   D'Hondt, P ^b   Ranjan, R ^b   De Meyer, F ^d   Scharpe S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^e Clinical Research Center for Mental Health of Antwerp   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030800104     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1997.1881002.x     Document Type: Article

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