The pituitary-testicular axis in Klinefelter's syndrome and in oligo-azoospermic patients with and without deletions of the Y chromosome long arm

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 214-222

  Tomasi, Paolo A ^a,c,d   Oates, Robert ^b   Brown, Laura ^a   Delitala, Giuseppe ^c   Page, David C ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME YQ; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GENE DELETION; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TESTIS SYSTEM; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; ESTRADIOL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; INHIBINS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PITUITARY GLAND; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0042165844     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01828.x     Document Type: Article

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