Impaired growth hormone secretion associated with low glucocorticoid levels: an experimental model for the Giustina effect

Endocrine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 354-356

  Giustina, Andrea ^a   Mazziotti, Gherardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DIOXIN; GHRELIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; SOMATOSTATIN; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; EDITORIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GIUSTINA EFFECT; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING CELL; GROWTH RETARDATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; PREGNANCY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 84911004064     PISSN: 1355008X     EISSN: 15590100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12020-014-0278-y     Document Type: Editorial

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