Metabolic Impact of Adult-Onset, Isolated, Growth Hormone Deficiency (AOiGHD) Due to Destruction of Pituitary Somatotropes

Raul M. Luque; Qing Lin; José Córdoba-Chacón; Papasani V. Subbaiah; Thorsten Buch; Ari Waisman; Hugo Vankelecom; Rhonda D. Kineman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015767

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Metabolic Impact of Adult-Onset, Isolated, Growth Hormone Deficiency (AOiGHD) Due to Destruction of Pituitary Somatotropes

Raul M. Luque,

Affiliations Research and Development Division, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), and CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Córdoba, Spain
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Qing Lin,

Affiliations Research and Development Division, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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José Córdoba-Chacón,

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), and CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Córdoba, Spain
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Papasani V. Subbaiah,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Thorsten Buch,

Affiliation Neuroimmunology Division, Institute of Experimental Immunology, Department of Pathology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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Ari Waisman,

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Biology, University Medical Centre, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Hugo Vankelecom,

Affiliation Laboratory of Tissue Plasticity, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Leuven, Belgium
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Rhonda D. Kineman

* E-mail: Kineman@uic.edu

Affiliations Research and Development Division, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Metabolic Impact of Adult-Onset, Isolated, Growth Hormone Deficiency (AOiGHD) Due to Destruction of Pituitary Somatotropes

Raul M. Luque,
Qing Lin,
José Córdoba-Chacón,
Papasani V. Subbaiah,
Thorsten Buch,
Ari Waisman,
Hugo Vankelecom,
Rhonda D. Kineman

Published: January 19, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015767

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