Changes in prolactin levels with the menopause: The effects of estrogen/androgen and calcitonin treatment

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 275-280

  Balint Peric L A ^a,b   Prelevic G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Zvezdara University Medical Center   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

Androgen; Calcitonin; Estrogen; Menopause; Prolactin level

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; PROLACTIN; SALCATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENOPAUSE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; TIME;

EID: 0030765425     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513599709152546     Document Type: Article

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