Cortisol elimination from plasma in premenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 674-676

  Rovensky, J ^a   Imrich, R ^b   Koska, J ^b   Kovalancik, M ^a   Killinger, Z ^c   Payer, J ^c   Vigas, M ^b   Jezova, D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHEUMATIC DISEASES   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMED CONSENT; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; PREMENOPAUSE; SALIVA;

EID: 0038546704     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.7.674     Document Type: Article

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