Impaired GH secretion to provocative stimuli in two families with hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 604-606

  Cecconi, Elisabetta ^a   Bogazzi, Fausto ^a   Cetani, Filomena ^a   Grasso, Lucia ^a   Marcocci, Claudio ^a   Genovesi, Maura ^a   Procopio, Massimo ^b   Gasperi, Maurizio ^a   Pinchera, Aldo ^a   Ghigo, Ezio ^b   Martino, Enio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CALCIUM ION; CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOCALCIURIA; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; ARGININE; CALCIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERCALCEMIA; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROLACTIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 10744224160     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01891.x     Document Type: Article

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