Growth Retardation in Children with Chronic Renal Failure
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Growth retardation in children with chronic renal insufficiency.
The somatomedins are a family of growth hormone-dependent insulin-like peptides which have been postulated to mediate the actions of pituitary growth hormone on skeletal tissue. The somatomedin peptides are part of a larger family of growth factors. Somatomedin has been measured by bioassays, by radioreceptor assays, and recently by a radioimmunoassay. Bioassays are influenced by glucocorticoid...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0884-0431
DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.1999.14.10.1680