Serum insulin-like factor 3 levels during puberty in healthy boys and boys with Klinefelter syndrome

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4705-4708

  Wikström, Anne M ^a,d   Bay, Katrine ^b   Hero, Matti ^a   Andersson, Anna Maria ^b   Dunkel, Leo ^a,c  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; GONADOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; INHIBIN B; INSULIN LIKE GROWTH FACTOR 3; LETROZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PLACEBO; SOMATOMEDIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE AGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT STATURE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 33751508782     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2006-0669     Document Type: Article

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