Role of leptin in reproduction

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 900, Issue , 2000, Pages 174-183

  Mantzoros, Christos S ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

AMENORRHEA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034014887     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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