Short-term estradiol treatment enhances pituitary-adrenal axis and sympathetic responses to psychosocial stress in healthy young men

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3639-3643

  Kirschbaum, Clemens ^a   Schommer, Nicole ^a   Federenko, Iiona ^a   Gaab, Jens ^a   Neumann, Oliver ^a   Oellers, Martina ^a   Rohleder, Nicolas ^a   Untiedt, Amrei ^a   Hanker, Jürgen ^a   Pirke, Karl Martin ^a   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMOTIONALITY; HEART RATE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; ESTRADIOL; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; KINETICS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PITUITARY GLAND; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10244237835     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.10.3639     Document Type: Article

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