Cabergoline treatment for recurrent Cushing’s disease during pregnancy
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Medical Treatment in Cushings Syndrome: Dopamine Agonists and Cabergoline
Dopamine (DA) is a catecholamine with a wide range of functions and whose five subtype receptors are found in different organs where they exert a mainly inhibitory action. Since this action may also appear in a number of secretory tumors in various locations, DA agonists have elicited some interest as a medical treatment for hypercorticism. Non-iatrogenic Cushing’s syndromes are due in 70% of t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: HORMONES
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1109-3099
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1685