Sex differences in the effects of pubertal development on responses to a corticotropin-releasing hormone challenge: The Pittsburgh psychobiologic studies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1021, Issue , 2004, Pages 348-351

  Stroud, Laura R ^a   Papandonatos, George D ^b   Williamson, Douglas E ^c   Dahl, Ronald E ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Cortisol; CRH challenge; Puberty; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 3042840203     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1308.043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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