Altered serum profile of inhibin B, Pro-αC and anti-Müllerian hormone in prepubertal and pubertal boys with varicocele

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 758-764

  Trigo, Romina V ^a   Bergadá, Ignacio ^a   Rey, Rodolfo ^a   Ballerini, María G ^a   Bedecarrás, Patricia ^a   Bergadá, César ^a   Gottlieb, Silvia ^a   Campo, Stella ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PUBERTY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VARICOCELE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INHIBINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PUBERTY; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 2942748172     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02051.x     Document Type: Article

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