The endocrinology of dizygotic twinning in the human

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 97-102

  Lambalk, C B ^a   De Koning, C H ^a   Braat, D D M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Reproductive) ageing and review; Dizygotic twinning; Endocrinology; Pituitary gonadotrophic hormones

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MATERNAL AGE; OVULATION; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; AMENORRHEA; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREMENOPAUSE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032566947     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(98)00175-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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