Lower serum androstenedione levels in pre-rheumatoid arthritis versus normal control women: Correlations with lower serum cortisol levels

Autoimmune Diseases

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Masi, Alfonse T ^a   Elmore, Kevin B ^a   Rehman, Azeem A ^a   Chatterton, Robert T ^b   Goertzen, Ned J ^a   Aldag, Jean C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

17 HYDROXYPREGNENOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTODOXONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 84878700184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20900430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/593493     Document Type: Article

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