Stress and the menstrual cycle: Relevance of cycle quality in the short- and long-term response to a 5-day endotoxin challenge during the follicular phase in the rhesus monkey

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2454-2460

  Xiao, Ennian ^a   Xia Zhang, Linna ^a   Barth, Alinda ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Ferin, Michel ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENDOTOXIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RHESUS MONKEY; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACACA MULATTA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROGESTERONE; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031757964     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.7.2454     Document Type: Article

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