Plasma sex hormones are significantly associated with plasma leptin concentration in healthy subjects

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 291-297

  Paolisso, Giuseppe ^a,b   Rizzo, Maria Rosaria ^a   Mone, Concetta Maria ^a   Tagliamonte, Maria Rosaria ^a   Gambardella, Antonio ^a   Riondino, Mariangela ^a   Carella, Carlo ^a   Varricchio, Michele ^a   D'Onofrio, Felice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Servizio di Astanteria Medica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; INSULIN; LEPTIN; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031930777     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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