ACTH precursors: Biological significance and clinical relevance

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 251-255

  White, Anne ^a   Gibson, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HORMONE PRECURSOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

CARCINOID; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOID TUMOR; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

EID: 0031883159     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00451.x     Document Type: Review

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