Thyroid cysts: A new extra-adrenal site of aldosterone synthase expression and increased aldosterone content

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 886-889

  Greenman, Yona ^a   Trostanetsky, Yana ^a   Ben Shemen, Sarit ^a   Grazas, Nili ^d   Limor, Rona ^a   Osher, Etty ^a   Lewicka, Sabina ^b   Vecsei, Paul ^b   Stern, N Aftali ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; ANTIBODY; CHLORIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM; RNA; SODIUM;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; AGED; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST FLUID; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CYST; THYROID NODULE;

ADULT; AGED; ALDOSTERONE; ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHLORIDES; CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POTASSIUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SODIUM; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 34347369353     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02828.x     Document Type: Article

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