Effect of metyrapone on the pituitary-adrenal axis in depression: relation to dexamethasone suppressor status.
It has been suggested that the well-documented hypercortisolaemia found in a proportion of patients with severe depression occurs either in response to excessive secretion of corticotrophin-releasing hormone-41 (CRH-41) from the hypothalamus, or as a consequence of up-regulation of pituitary CRH-41...
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1992
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