Gender determines ACTH recovery from hypercortisolemia in healthy older humans

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1819-1829

  Sharma, Animesh ^a   Aoun, Paul ^a   Wigham, Jean ^a   Weist, Sue ^a   Veldhuis, Johannes D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cortisol; Feedback; Human

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; KETOCONAZOLE; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCORTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GENDER; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MICROCAPSULE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ACTH; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGING; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; AVP; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CORTISOL; CRH; E(2); ESTRADIOL; FEEDBACK; HUMAN; KETOCONAZOLE; KTCZ; T; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOASSAY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETOCONAZOLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84887990752     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: 15328600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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