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Control of Pituitary-Adrenal Periodicity

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Human Pituitary Hormones

Part of the book series: Developments in Endocrinology ((DIEN,volume 1))

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The present report will review studies of the pituitary-adrenal periodicity in the animal and the human and consider some of the possible factors involved in its regulation.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, 10029, USA

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Krieger, D.T. (1981). Control of Pituitary-Adrenal Periodicity. In: van Cauter, E., Copinschi, G. (eds) Human Pituitary Hormones. Developments in Endocrinology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8282-6_8

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