What does DST stand for?

Dexamethasone Suppression Test

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Samples in periodicals archive:

An overnight low-dose dexamethasone suppression test is more sensitive than the measurement of free cortisol levels.

A woman with long-standing hypertension diagnosed with metastatic ...

An overnight 1 mg dexamethasone suppression test was normal.

Epinephrine-secreting pheochromocytoma in a normotensive woman with ...

It has been reported that a Kampo medicine, Saiko-ka-ryukotsu-borei-to, prevented chronic stress-induced disruption of the negative feedback mechanism, evaluated by a dexamethasone suppression test using blood samples 10 days (recovery period) after exposure to the last stress situation in order to avoid the acute influences of stressors in rats (Mizoguchi et al.

Antidepressant-like activity of a Kampo (Japanese herbal) medicine, ...

The dexamethasone suppression test helps to distinguish patients with pituitary adenomas from those with ACTH- or cortisol-producing tumors.

Cushing's syndrome

28-31) Janssen et al (30) showed that after an overnight dexamethasone suppression test, leptin levels increased significantly at the 9th hour.

Serum leptin levels in rheumatoid arthritis and relationship with ...

Significantly fewer bipolar II patients had positive results on the dexamethasone suppression test, and scores in this group were lower on Research Diagnostic Criteria endogenous criteria and on melancholia criteria of DSM-III.

Depression is milder in patients with bipolar II. (More Cognitive ...

A classic example is the single-dose dexamethasone suppression test used in screening patients for Cushing's syndrome.

It's about time: a chronobiological approach to healthcare

An overnight 1-mg dexamethasone suppression test was normal.

Large dopamine-secreting pheochromocytoma: case report