Licorice consumption and serum testosterone in healthy man

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 341-343

  Armanini, Decio ^a   Bonanni, G ^a   Mattarello, M J ^a   Fiore, C ^a   Sartorato, P ^a   Palermo, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Free testosterone; Glycyrrhetinic acid; Licorice; Total testosterone

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; ALDOSTERONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; GLYCYRRHIZA; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PLANT ROOTS; REFERENCE VALUES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0141920563     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-42724     Document Type: Article

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