Corticotropin-releasing hormone: A potent androgen secretagogue in girls with hyperandrogenism after precocious pubarche

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4602-4606

  Ibáñez, Lourdes ^a   Potau, Neus ^b   Marcos, Maria Victoria ^c   De Zegher, Francis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Unit of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; INSULIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENARCHE; ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN RELEASE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPERINSULINEMIA; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033305247     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.84.12.4602     Document Type: Article

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