With aging in humans the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal system increases and its diurnal amplitude flattens
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Life Sciences
- Vol. 61 (22), 2239-2246
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0024-3205(97)00926-0
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