Mullerian inhibiting substance in humans: Normal levels from infancy to adulthood

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 571-576

  Lee, Mary M ^a   Donahoe, Patricia K ^a   Hasegawa, Tomonobu ^b   Silverman, Bernard ^c   Crist, Gretchen B ^a   Best, Sharon ^a   Hasegawa, Yukihiro ^b   Noto, Richard A ^d   Schoenfeld, David ^a   MacLaughlin, David T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Tokyo Metropol Kiyose Children's H   (Japan)

^c CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GONADAL DISEASE; GRANULOSA CELL; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY TUMOR; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; GRANULOSA CELLS; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PUBERTY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDERS; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 9044238435     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.2.571     Document Type: Article

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