Two-week pulsatile gonadotropin releasing hormone infusion unmasks dual (hypothalamic and Leydig cell) defects in the healthy aging male gonadotropic axis

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 257-266

  Mulligan, Thomas ^a,d   Iranmanesh, Ali ^a,c   Kerzner, Roger ^a   Demers, Laurence W ^b   Veldhuis, Johannes D ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d Univ of Virginia Hlth Sci Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFUSION PUMPS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INHIBINS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0032879225     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.0.1410257     Document Type: Article

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