Effects of chronic opioid antagonism on gonadotrophin and ovarian sex steroid secretion during the luteal phase

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 343-351

  Rossmanith, Winifried G ^a   Monn, Marcel ^a   Benz, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NALTREXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; PROGESTERONE; SECRETORY RATE;

EID: 0031721838     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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