'Add-back' estrogen reverses cognitive deficits induced by a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist in women with leiomyomata uteri

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2545-2549

  Sherwin, Barbara B ^a   Tulandi, Togas ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEUPRORELIN;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UTERUS MYOMA; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LEUPROLIDE; MEMORY DISORDERS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029900525     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.7.2545     Document Type: Article

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