Pituitary-ovarian axis during lactational amenorrhoea. I. Longitudinal assessment of follicular growth, gonadotrophins, sex steroids and inhibin levels before and after recovery of menstrual cyclicity

Human Reproduction

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 909-915

  Velasquez, E V ^a   Trigo, R V ^b   Creus, S ^b   Campo, S ^b   Croxatto, H B ^a  

^a Instituto Chileno de Medicina Reproductiva   (Chile)

^b HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Follicular growth; Gonadotrophins; Inhibins; Lactational amenorrhoea; Recovered ovarian cyclicity

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33645308516     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dei410     Document Type: Article

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