Exercise capacity and hormonal response in adults with childhood onset growth hormone deficiency during long-term somatropin treatment

Growth Hormone and IGF Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 377-384

  Gullestad, L ^a   Birkeland, K ^a   Bjonerheim, R ^a   Djoseland, O ^a   Trygstad, O ^a   Simonsen, S ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; PROLACTIN; RENIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HAND GRIP; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0032459922     PISSN: 10966374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-6374(98)80307-9     Document Type: Article

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