Exaggerated response of adrenocorticotropic hormone to growth hormone-releasing peptide-2 test in Cushing's disease - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 365-369

  Sakihara, Satoru ^a   Kageyama, Kazunori ^a   Matsumoto, Atsufumi ^a   Ikeda, Hidetoshi ^b   Tsushima, Yuko ^a   Naraoka, Maki ^a   Terui, Ken ^a   Nigawara, Takeshi ^a   Suda, Toshihiro ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Southern Tohoku General Hospital and Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Corticotropin; Hypothalamus; Pituitary; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DESMOPRESSIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; PENTETIC ACID; PRALMORELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE-REGULATING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 69549105620     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.365     Document Type: Article

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