Effects of a two-week physiological dehydroepiandrosterone substitution on cognitive performance and well-being in healthy elderly women and men

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2363-2367

  Wolf, Oliver T ^a   Neumann, Oliver ^a   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^a   Geiben, Andrea C ^a   Strasburger, Christian J ^b   Dressendörfer, Regina A ^b   Pirke, Karl Martin ^a   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

19 OXOANDROSTENEDIONE; PRASTERONE; SOMATOMEDIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WELLBEING;

AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANDROSTENEDIONE; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030811021     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.7.2363     Document Type: Note

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