Menopausal increases in pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone release in a nonhuman primate (Macaca mulatta)

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 4653-4659

  Gore, Andrea C ^a   Windsor Engnell, Bret M ^b   Terasawa, El ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RHESUS MONKEY; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MACACA MULATTA; MENOPAUSE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PREMENOPAUSE;

EID: 4644344715     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2004-0379     Document Type: Article

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