GH substitution does not alter the pulsatile pattern of LH in amenorrhoeic growth hormone deficient women

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 479-485

  De Boer, J A M ^a   Van Der Veen, E A ^b   Schoemaker, J ^a  

^a Res Inst Endocrinol   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SECRETORY RATE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0032721013     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00831.x     Document Type: Article

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