Carbohydrate complexity and proportion of serum FSH isoforms reflect pituitary-ovarian activity in perimenopausal women and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate users

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 558-565

  Loreti, Nazareth ^a   Ambao, Verónica ^a   Juliato, Cassia Teatin ^b   MacHado, Cecilia ^a   Bahamondes, Luis ^b   Campo, Stella ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CONCANAVALIN A; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; SIALIC ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASE; DELAYED RELEASE FORMULATION; INHIBIN; ISOPROTEIN; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLIMACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIALYLATION; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DELAYED RELEASE FORMULATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HYPOPHYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MIDDLE AGED; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; OVARY; PERIMENOPAUSE; PITUITARY GLAND; PROTEIN ISOFORMS;

EID: 69949131143     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03559.x     Document Type: Article

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