Testosterone treatment enhances regional brain perfusion in hypogonadal men

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3064-3068

  Azad, Nasrin ^a,b   Pitale, Shailesh ^a,b   Barnes, W Earl ^a,b   Friedman, Nicholas ^a,b  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY IN AGING MEN QUESTIONNAIRE; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WELLBEING;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MEMORY; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTONIN; TESTOSTERONE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037961089     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-020632     Document Type: Article

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