Not insulin but insulin sensitivity, leptin, and cortisol are major factors regulating serum acylated ghrelin level in healthy women

Journal of Endocrinological Investigation

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 659-665

  Kempa, A ^a   Krzyzanowska Swiniarska B ^a   Mazgowski, Tomasz ^a   Pilarska, K ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acylated ghrelin; Cortisol; Insulin sensitivity; Leptin

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; GHRELIN; GLUCOSE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; PEPTIDE HORMONE;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMPEDANCE; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ACYLATION; ADRENAL GLAND; BLOOD; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREMENOPAUSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACYLATION; ADIPONECTIN; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PREMENOPAUSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 35448993995     PISSN: 03914097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03347446     Document Type: Article

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