The dynamic pituitary response to escalating-dose TRH stimulation test in hypothyroid patients treated with liothyronine or levothyroxine replacement therapy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Yavuz, Sahzene ^a   Linderman, Joyce D ^a   Smith, Sheila ^a   Zhao, Xiongce ^b   Pucino, Frank ^a   Celi, Francesco S ^a,b  

^a Diabetes Endocrinology and Obesity Branch ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; PROTIRELIN; THYROTROPIN;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84877713272     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-4196     Document Type: Article

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