Analysis of cortisol secretion in hormonally inactive adrenocortical incidentalomas: Study of in vitro steroid secretion and immunohistochemical localization of steroidogenic enzymes

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 167-174

  Midorikawa, Sanae ^a   Sanada, Hironobu ^a   Hashimoto, Shigeatsu ^a   Suzuki, Takashi ^b   Watanabe, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sasano, Hironobu ^b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal gland; Immunohistochemistry; Incidentaloma; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

EID: 0034990327     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.48.167     Document Type: Article

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