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Lifelong Serum Growth Hormone Levels in Patients with Laron Syndrome

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This chapter presents the overnight fasting serum GH levels from childhood to adult age in patients with Laron syndrome of both genders. The relationship between hGH and IGF-I levels is also illustrated.

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The contribution of Orly Efros was in partial fulfillment of the MD thesis requirement of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

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Laron, Z., Efros, O. (2011). Lifelong Serum Growth Hormone Levels in Patients with Laron Syndrome. In: Laron, Z., Kopchick, J. (eds) Laron Syndrome - From Man to Mouse. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11183-9_26

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