Circatrigintan Cycle of Salivary Testosterone in Human Male

Biological Rhythm Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-315

  Celec, Peter ^a,f,g   Ostatníková, Daniela ^b   Putz, Zdeněk ^c   Hodosy, Július ^b,f   Burský, Peter ^d   Stárka, Luboslav ^e   Hampl, Richard ^e   Kúdela, Matúš ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^c Institute of Endocrinology   (Slovakia)

^d SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^e INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^f Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^g NONE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Biorhythms; Chronobiology; Circalunar cycle; Hormones; Infradian Variations; Salivary testosterone; Steroid

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SALIVARY GLAND; SAMPLE; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

EID: 0347126675     PISSN: 09291016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/brhm.34.3.305.18807     Document Type: Article

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