Exercise increases serum testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin levels in older men

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 935-939

  Zmuda, Joseph M ^a   Thompson, Paul D ^a   Winters, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029788159     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-0495(96)90258-9     Document Type: Article

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