From menarche to regular menstruation: Endocrinological background

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1092, Issue , 2006, Pages 49-56

  Messinis, Ioannis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Estradiol; FSH; LH; Menarche; Ovary; Pituitary; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN SURGE ATTENUATING FACTOR; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PUBERTY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION;

EID: 34247222544     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1365.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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