Gender variation in leptin circadian rhythm and pulsatility in adult growth hormone deficiency: Effects of growth hormone replacement

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 482-488

  White, Helen D ^a   Ahmad, A M ^a   Guzder, R ^a   Wallace, A M ^b   Fraser, W D ^a   Vora, J P ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; LEPTIN;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OBESITY; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BODY COMPOSITION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SECRETORY RATE; SEX;

EID: 0037382659     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01742.x     Document Type: Article

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