Serum α-subunit levels in patients with pituitary adenomas

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 479-484

  Samejima, Naoyuki ^a   Yamada, Shozo ^a   Takada, Koji ^a   Sano, Toshiaki ^b   Ozawa, Yasunori ^a   Shimizu, Taeko ^a   Usui, Masaaki ^a   Shishiba, Yoshimasa ^c  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; PROTIRELIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CHORDOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADENOMA; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035724660     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2001.01174.x     Document Type: Article

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