Changes in fat cell size and in vitro lipolytic activity of abdominal and gluteal adipocytes after a one-year cross-sex hormone administration in transsexuals

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1371-1377

  Elbers, Jolanda M H ^a   De Jong, Sigrid ^a   Teerlink, Tom ^a   Asscheman, Henk ^a   Seidell, Jacob C ^a   Gooren, Louis J G ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LIPOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 0032697050     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-0495(99)90146-4     Document Type: Article

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