Profound amplification of secretory-burst mass and anomalous regularity of ACTH secretory process in patients with Nelson's syndrome compared with Cushing's disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 765-772

  Van Aken, Maarten O ^a   Pereira, Alberto M ^a   Van Den Berg, Gerrit ^a   Romijn, Johannes A ^a   Veldhuis, Johannes D ^b   Roelfsema, Ferdinand ^a,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Dept of Endocrinol and Metab Dis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; MINERALOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MALE; NELSON SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NELSON SYNDROME; SECRETORY RATE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 2942720537     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02052.x     Document Type: Article

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