Dose-response relationship between plasma ACTH and serum cortisol in the insulin-hypoglycaemia test in 25 healthy subjects and 109 patients with pituitary disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 301-307

  Tuchelt, H ^a   Dekker, K ^a   Bahr, V ^a   Oelkers, W ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; INSULIN HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY DISEASES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0033824917     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2000.01089.x     Document Type: Article

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