Recent insights into neuroendocrine mechanisms of aging of the human male hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Veldhuis, Johannes D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; KETOCONAZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SHORT SURVEY; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; ULTRADIAN RHYTHM;

EID: 0033067418     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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