Corticotrophin releasing factor: responses in normal subjects and patients with disorders of the hypothalamus and pituitary.
Synthetic CRF-41 has been given to 43 patients with hypothalamic, pituitary or adrenal diseases and contrasted with the responses in 20 normal subjects. In the normal subjects the mean increment in serum cortisol (+/- SE) was 276 +/- 38 nmol/l; the increments showed a significant negative correlatio...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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1984
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