Hirsuties

Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 34-42

  Dawber, R P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIANDROGEN; BROMOCRIPTINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CIMETIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; DESOGESTREL; DIANE; EFLORNITHINE; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FINASTERIDE; FLUTAMIDE; FOLLITROPIN; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; SPIRONOLACTONE; STEROID; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADULTHOOD; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CIRCULATION; CUSHING SYNDROME; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH HAZARD; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; LIVER TOXICITY; MENOPAUSE; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; WELLBEING;

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HIRSUTISM; HUMANS; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; POSTMENOPAUSE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

EID: 0036767851     PISSN: 15237036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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