Pharmacokinetics of testosterone undecanoate injected alone or in combination with norethisterone enanthate in healthy men

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 853-867

  Qoubaitary, Ammar ^a   Meriggiola, Cristina ^b   Chiu, Ming Ng ^a   Lumbreras, Leslie ^a   Cerpolini, Silvia ^b   Pelusi, G ^b   Christensen, Peter D ^a   Hull, Laura ^a   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a   Wang, Christina ^a,c  

^a LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Male contraception; Oligozoospermia

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GONADOTROPIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; NORETHISTERONE ENANTATE; PENICILLIN G; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY;

ADULT; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ESTRADIOL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORETHINDRONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS-BLOCKING AGENTS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33751573463     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.106.000281     Document Type: Article

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