Role of ovarian hormones in the regulation of protein metabolism in women: Effects of menopausal status and hormone replacement therapy

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 291, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Toth, Michael J ^a   Sites, Cynthia K ^a   Matthews, Dwight E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Fat free mass; Menopause; Progesterone; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; LEUCINE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PHENYLALANINE; PLACEBO; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; OBESITY; OVARY; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; KETO ACIDS; LEUCINE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE 17-ACETATE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHENYLALANINE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROTEINS; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 33748474624     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00050.2006     Document Type: Article

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