The relationship between plasma levels of the endocannabinoid, anandamide, sex steroids, and gonadotrophins during the menstrual cycle

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1989-1996

  El Talatini, Mona R ^a   Taylor, Anthony H ^a,b   Konje, Justin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anandamide; endocannabinoid; gonadotrophin; menstrual cycle; sex steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ANANDAMIDE; ENDOCANNABINOID; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ANANDAMIDE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDOCANNABINOID BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEX HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949913088     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.033     Document Type: Article

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