High serum concentration of total inhibin in polycystic ovary syndrome

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1859-1863

  Tsigkou, Anastasia ^a   Luisi, Stefano ^a   De Leo, Vincenzo ^a   Patton, Laura ^b   Gambineri, Alessandra ^b   Reis, Fernando M ^c   Pasquali, Renato ^b   Petraglia, Felice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

inhibin A; inhibin B; obesity; Polycystic ovary syndrome; total inhibin

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INHIBIN BLOOD LEVEL; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; INHIBINS; ITALY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVERWEIGHT; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55149115402     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.08.082     Document Type: Article

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