Disruption of the hypothalamic luteinizing hormone pulsing mechanism in aging men

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 281, Issue 6 50-6, 2001, Pages

  Keenan, Daniel M ^a,b,c   Veldhuis, Johannes D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Androgen; Human; Hypothalamus; Male; Pituitary; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0035665125     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.2001.281.6.r1917     Document Type: Article

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