Overnight ACTH-cortisol dose responsiveness: Comparison with 24-h data, metyrapone administration and insulin-tolerance test in healthy adults

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 596-601

  Iranmanesh, Ali ^a   Keenan, Daniel M ^b   Aoun, Paul ^c   Veldhuis, Johannes D ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; METYRAPONE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; MALE; METYRAPONE;

EID: 80054775322     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04125.x     Document Type: Article

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