Characterization of a prospective human model for study of the reproductive hormone responses to major illness

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 295, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Spratt, Daniel I ^a,b   Kramer, Robert S ^a   Morton, Jeremy R ^a   Lucas, F Lee ^a   Becker, Karen ^b   Longcope, Christopher ^c  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Critical illness; Estrogen; Gonadotropins; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; HYDROCORTISONE; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; BLOOD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 50349095771     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00472.2007     Document Type: Article

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