Serum leptin and body composition in children with familial GH deficiency (GHD) due to a mutation in the growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) receptor

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 559-564

  De A Barretto, Elenilde S ^a   Gill, Matthew S ^b   De Freitas, Maria E S ^a   Magalhaes, Marta M G ^a   Souza, Anita H O ^a   Aguiar Oliveira, Manuel H ^a   Clayton, Peter E ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Endocrine Sciences Research Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; LEPTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE-REGULATING HORMONE;

EID: 0032748444     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00837.x     Document Type: Article

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