Glucocorticoids: Do they really contribute to stress-related reproductive inhibition?

Expert Review of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 295-298

  Karsch, Fred J ^a   Breen, Kellie M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METYRAPONE; MIFEPRISTONE; PROSTAGLANDIN;

CELL STRESS; EDITORIAL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; REPRODUCTION; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; STRESS;

EID: 69949184835     PISSN: 17446651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eem.09.14     Document Type: Editorial

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