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Blood Corticotrophin in Cushing's Syndrome

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PREVIOUS work on the level of blood corticotrophin in cases of Cushing's syndrome has been scanty and has not involved a full-scale bioassay of concentrated extracts used at sufficiently high dose-levels. Some of the early work on this subject was reviewed by Loraine1 and semiquantitative values for four Cushing's patients have been given by Clayton2.

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  1. BERYL M. A. DAVIES & A. R. CURRIE

    Present address: Division of Pathology, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.2

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    BERYL M. A. DAVIES, A. R. CURRIE & T. SYMINGTON

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DAVIES, B., CURRIE, A. & SYMINGTON, T. Blood Corticotrophin in Cushing's Syndrome. Nature 188, 1203–1204 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1881203b0

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