Luteinizing Hormone Secretion Patterns in Boys at the Onset of Puberty Measured Using a Highly Sensitive Immunoradiometric Assay

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 924-928

  Wennink, Johanna M B ^a   Delemarre Van De Waal, Henriette A ^a   Van Kessel, Herman ^a   Mulder, Gerhard H ^a   Foster, J Peter ^b   Schoemaker, Joop ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Serono Diagnostics Ltd ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RADIOISOTOPE; TESTOSTERONE;

BOY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PUBERTY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0023808261     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem-67-5-924     Document Type: Article

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