Growth hormone and the aging male

Aging Male

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-94

  L'Hermite Baleriaux M ^a,c   Copinschi, G ^a   Van Cauter, E ^a,b  

^a Lab de Méd Exp   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aging; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor i; Sleep; Somatopause

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY GROWTH; BONE METABOLISM; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; MALE; MUSCLE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP;

EID: 0032827026     PISSN: 13685538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13685539909003171     Document Type: Article

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