Motivations and methods for analyzing pulsatile hormone secretion

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 823-864

  Veldhuis, Johannes D ^a   Keenan, Daniel M ^b   Pincus, Steven M ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Independent Statistician   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GLUCAGON; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; TRANSCORTIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIET RESTRICTION; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; ENTROPY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; INFUNDIBULUM; INSULIN RELEASE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARATHYROID TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; PULSE GENERATOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TARGET ORGAN;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; HORMONES; HUMANS; PULSATILE FLOW; SECRETORY RATE;

EID: 57349192792     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: 0163769X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.2008-0005     Document Type: Review

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