Slowing of pulsatile luteinizing hormone secretion in men after forty-eight hours of fasting

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 35-41

  Cameron, Judy L ^a   Weltzin, Theodore E ^a   Mc conaha, Claire ^a   Helmreich, Dana L ^a   Kaye, Walter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FASTING; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PERIODICITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0025738177     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem-73-1-35     Document Type: Article

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