Male testosterone: What is normal?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 263-264

  Barrett Connor, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIBIDO DISORDER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 15044359259     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2005.02232.x     Document Type: Note

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