Initial characterization of the GH-IGF axis and nutritional status of the Ati Negritos of the Philippines

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 741-747

  Clavano Harding, Amabel B ^b   Ambler, Geoffrey R ^b   Cowell, Christopher T ^a   Garnett, Sarah P ^b   Al Toumah, Ban ^b   Coakley, John C ^b   Ho, Ken K Y ^b   Baxter, Robert C ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; PREALBUMIN; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 2; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRANSFERRIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; ETHNIC GROUP; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 2; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHILIPPINES; SERUM ALBUMIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSFERRIN; ZINC;

EID: 0033392443     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00877.x     Document Type: Article

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