Short-term leptin infusion does not affect circulating levels of LH, testosterone or cortisol in food-restricted pubertal male rhesus macaques

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-51

  Lado Abeal, Joaquin ^a   Lukyanenko, Yevgeniya O ^a   Swamy, Sunita ^a   Hermida, Ramon C ^b   Hutson, James C ^a   Norman, Reid L ^a,c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; LEPTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG EFFECT; LEYDIG CELL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PULSE GENERATOR; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYDROCORTISONE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEPTIN; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEXUAL MATURATION; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0032810092     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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