Mechanisms of Disease: Late-onset hypogonadism

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 430-438

  Mahmoud, Ahmed ^a   Comhaire, Frank H ^b  

^a European Academy of Andrology

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; MELATONIN; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANDROPAUSE; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

EID: 33747168158     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0560     Document Type: Review

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