Role of the pineal hormone melatonin in patients with hypergonadotropic and hypogonadotropic hypogonadisms

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 21, Issue , 1996, Pages 186-198

  Puig Domingo, M ^b,c   Rajmil, O ^a   Tortosa, F ^b   De Leiva, A ^b,c  

^a FUNDACIÓ PUIGVERT   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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