Acute stress may induce ovulation in women

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tarín, Juan J ^a   Hamatani, Toshio ^b   Cano, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ACUTE STRESS; AMENORRHEA; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LACTATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MEDLINE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; RAT; REVIEW; RHESUS MONKEY; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; GONAD; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; RATTUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; OVULATION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; RATS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952588684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-53     Document Type: Review

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