Excitability of the motor cortex during ovulatory and anovulatory cycles: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 387-393

  Hattemer, Katja ^a   Knake, Susanne ^a   Reis, Janine ^a   Rochon, Justine ^a   Oertel, Wolfgang H ^a   Rosenow, Felix ^a   Hamer, Hajo M ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; OVULATION INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVULATION; BRAIN DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESTRADIOL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOTOR CORTEX; PROGESTERONE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33846895411     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02744.x     Document Type: Article

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