Effects of testosterone on cognitive and brain aging in elderly men

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1055, Issue , 2005, Pages 80-92

  Moffat, Scott D ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Institute of Gerontology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Androgen; Dementia; Hippocampus; Memory; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; RISK FACTOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VERBAL MEMORY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32244439772     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1323.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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