Altered kinetics of pituitary response to gonadotropin-releasing hormone in women with variant luteinizing hormone: Correlation with ovulatory disorders

Hormone Research

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-32

  Takahashi, Kentaro ^a   Karino, Kenji ^a   Kanasaki, Haruhiko ^a   Miyazaki, Kohji ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GnRH test; Ovulatory disorders; Pituitary response; Variant luteinizing hormone

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; IMMUNOASSAY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OVARIAN DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND;

EID: 1542297678     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075194     Document Type: Article

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