The acute effect of dexamethasone on plasma leptin concentrations and the relationships between fasting leptin, the IGF-I/IGFBP system, dehydroepiandrosterone, androstenedione and testosterone in an elderly population

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 621-626

  Janssen, J A M J L ^a,e   Huizenga, N A T M ^a   Stolk, R P ^b   Grobbee, D E ^a,b   Pols, H A P ^a   De Jong, F H ^a   Attanasio, A M F ^d   Blum, W F ^c,d   Lamberts, S W J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^d Lilly Research Laboratories

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; DEXAMETHASONE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MAGNESIUM; PRASTERONE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANDROSTENEDIONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; DEXAMETHASONE; FASTING; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 1; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEINS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031779648     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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