Clinical evidence that hyperinsulinaemia independent of gonadotropins stimulates ovarian growth

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-78

  Musso, Carla ^a   Shawker, Thomas ^b   Cochran, Elaine ^a   Javor, Edward D ^a   Young, Janice ^a   Gorden, Phillip ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; INSULIN; RECOMBINANT LEPTIN; RECOMBINANT METHIONYL HUMAN LEPTIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPODYSTROPHY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; ORGAN GROWTH; OVARY GROWTH; OVARY HYPERTROPHY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; C-PEPTIDE; CHILD; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEPTIN; LIPODYSTROPHY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARY; PUBERTY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 22044447686     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2005.02302.x     Document Type: Article

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