Insulin-like growth factors and insulin-like growth factor binding proteins in androgen-dominant ovarian follicles from testosterone-treated female-to-male trans-sexuals

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 252-258

  Yap, O W Stephanie ^d   Fauser, Bart C J M ^a   Van Dessel, H J H M Thierry ^a   Giudice, Linda ^b,c   Chandrasekher, Yasmin A ^d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Female to male trans sexual ovary; Human follicular fluid; IGFBPs; Insulin like growth factors

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 0342602017     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81511-7     Document Type: Article

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