Relative effects of estrogen, age, and visceral fat on pulsatile growth hormone secretion in healthy women

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Veldhuis, Johannes D ^a   Hudson, Susan B ^a   Erickson, Dana ^a   Bailey, Joy N ^a   Reynolds, George Ann ^b   Bowers, Cyril Y ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Growth hormone secretion; Growth hormone releasing hormone; Growth hormone releasing peptide; Human; Somatotropin

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRALMORELIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HEALTH; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LEUPROLIDE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBOS; PULSATILE FLOW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049084534     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00230.2009     Document Type: Article

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