Insulin Like Growth Factor-I, Insulin Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-3 and Acid Labile Subunit Levels in Healthy Children and Adolescents Residing in Mumbai Suburbs

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 990-997

  Dehiya, Rajbinder Kaur ^a   Bhartiya, Deepa ^a   Kapadia, Chhaya ^a   Desai, Meena P ^a  

^a B J WADIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; REFERENCE VALUES; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 0034276820     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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