Familial glucocorticoid deficiency type 2: A case report

JCRPE Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 122-125

  Akn, Leyla ^a   Kurtoglu, Selim ^a   Kendirci, Mustafa ^a   Akn, Mustafa Ali ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ACTH unresponsiveness; Familial glucocorticoid deficiency; Mrap

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; PRASTERONE;

ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CONVULSION; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOCORTICOSTEROID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INTRON; MALE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; GENE DELETION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURES; TURKEY;

EID: 77957583491     PISSN: 13085727     EISSN: 13085735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4274/jcrpe.v2i3.122     Document Type: Article

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