Inherited adrenal hypoplasia: Not just for kids!

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 529-537

  Lin, Lin ^a   Achermann, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTISONE DERIVATIVE; FLUDROCORTISONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOSTOP; MINERALOCORTICOID; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; PREDNISOLONE; PROHORMONE CONVERTASE 1; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PROP1; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; SUBTILISIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HESX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TPIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL CORTEX ATROPHY; ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; ALLGROVE SYNDROME; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COUNSELING; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONSENSE MUTATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STEROID THERAPY; STEROIDOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; PITUITARY HORMONES;

EID: 2442696385     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.01988.x     Document Type: Review

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