Hormone pulsatility discrimination via coarse and short time sampling

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 277, Issue 5 40-5, 1999, Pages

  Pincus, Steven M ^c   Hartman, Mark L ^a   Roelfsema, Ferdinand ^b   Thorner, Michael O ^a   Veldhuis, Johannes D ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Clinical utility; Irregularity; Tumor

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ACROMEGALY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; ENTROPY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR;

EID: 0032712060     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1999.277.5.e948     Document Type: Article

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