Impairment of GH responsiveness to combined GH-releasing hormone and arginine administration in adult patients with Prader-Willi syndrome

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 492-499

  Grugni, G ^a,e   Marzullo, P ^a   Ragusa, L ^b   Sartorio, A ^a   Trifiro G ^c   Liuzzi, A ^a   Crino A ^d  

^a S Giuseppe Hospital   (Italy)

^b OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^c S Giuseppe Hospital   (Italy)

^d BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARGININE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; SECRETORY RATE; SERMORELIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33748805758     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02621.x     Document Type: Article

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