Antipituitary antibodies after traumatic brain injury: Is head trauma-induced pituitary dysfunction associated with autoimmunity?

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-13

  Tanriverdi, Fatih ^a   De Bellis, Annamaria ^b   Bizzarro, Antonio ^b   Sinisi, Antonio Agostino ^b   Bellastella, Giuseppe ^b   Pane, Elena ^b   Bellastella, Antonio ^b   Unluhizarci, Kursad ^a   Selcuklu, Ahmet ^a   Casanueva, Felipe F ^c   Kelestimur, Fahrettin ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HISTIDYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLALANYLTRYPTOPHYL DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLLYSINAMIDE; HORMONE ANTIBODY; PITUITARY ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BLOOD; BRAIN INJURY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; RISK; SECRETION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRAIN INJURIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 47049086087     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-08-0050     Document Type: Article

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