Endocrine alterations during a detoxification treatment with carbamazepine in male alcoholics

Addiction Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-183

  Krüger, Tillmann H C ^a,b   Brink, Paul ^b   Goebel, Marion U ^a   Schiffer, Boris ^a   Schedlowski, Manfred ^a   Hartmann, Uwe ^b   Schneider, Udo ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Beck's depression inventory; Cortisol; Detoxification; Testosterone; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CARBAMAZEPINE; ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CHRONICITY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; GONAD FUNCTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGONADISM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANDROGENS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; ESTRADIOL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOGONADISM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROLACTIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 34247881920     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2006.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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