Does the impairment of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in anorexia nervosa depend on increased sensitivity to endogenous melatonin?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 111-113

  Pawlikowski, M ^a,b   Zarzycki, J ^b  

^a Dept Exp Endocrinol/Horm Diagn ^*  (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; MELATONIN; PROPRANOLOL;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0033081319     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.1997.0631     Document Type: Article

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