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Diminished adrenal androgen secretion in familial glucocorticoid deficiency implicates a significant role for ACTH in the induction of adrenarche.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Apr 1997
Weber A, Clark A J, Perry L A, Honour J W, Savage M O
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OBJECTIVE: The mechanism of adrenarche is controversial, and there have been competing claims that its origin is in the hypothalamo-pituitary axis or in the adrenal gland itself. ACTH is proposed inducer of adrenarche so patients with ACTH resistance due to be familial glucocorticoid deficiency syndrome provide a model to clarify the degree to which ACTH is involved in the regulation of adrenal androgen secretion...
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