Basal and stimulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders and healthy controls

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 288-294

  Böhmelt, Andreas H ^a   Nater, Urs M ^b   Franke, Saskia ^a   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^a   Ehlert, Ulrike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Cortisol; Dexamethasone suppression test; HPA axis; Irritable bowel syndrome; Nonulcer dyspepsia

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; SALIVA LEVEL; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STRESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SALIVA;

EID: 15744365651     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000157064.72831.ba     Document Type: Article

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