Endocrine changes of the perimenopause

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 912-920

  Klein, Nancy A ^a   Soules, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FERTILITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; LUTEAL PHASE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

AGING; CLIMACTERIC; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0032453292     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-199812000-00017     Document Type: Review

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