Male menopause

Drugs of Today

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 455-461

  Mulligan, Thomas ^a,c   Godschalk, Michael ^b  

^a HUNTER HOLMES MCGUIRE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYPROLINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; VITAMIN D;

AGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LIBIDO; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

EID: 0031837373     PISSN: 16993993     EISSN: 16994019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dot.1998.34.5.485244     Document Type: Review

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