Neuroendocrine changes and fertility in breast-feeding women

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 133, Issue , 2001, Pages 207-214

  McNeilly, Alan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OPIATE; STEROID; FOLLITROPIN;

AMENORRHEA; BREAST FEEDING; CHILDBIRTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LACTATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCKLING; INFANT; NEUROSECRETION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SECRETION;

BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035238394     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(01)33015-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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