Relationship between cognitive function, growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor I plasma levels in aged subjects

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 73-79

  Rollero, Alessandro ^a   Murialdo, Giovanni ^a   Fonzi, Stefano ^a   Garrone, Simona ^a   Gianelli, Maria V ^a   Gazzerro, Elisabetta ^a   Barreca, Antonina ^a   Polleri, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive function; Growth hormone; Growth hormone releasing hormone; Insulin like growth factor I

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; SKINFOLD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031695214     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026520     Document Type: Article

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