GH treatment reduces total ghrelin in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and may confound ghrelin studies in young PWS children: LETTERS to the EDITOR

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-156

  Hauffa, Berthold P ^a,b   Petersenn, Stephan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Children's Hospital of Universities   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE;

DRUG EFFECT; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; MORBID OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SATIETY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GHRELIN; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME;

EID: 66949171365     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03454.x     Document Type: Letter

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