Female social and sexual interest across the menstrual cycle: The roles of pain, sleep and hormones

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Guillermo, Chrisalbeth J ^a   Manlove, Heidi A ^a   Gray, Peter B ^a   Zava, David T ^b   Marrs, Chandler R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b ZRT Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOATING; BREAST TENDERNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAIN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WEIGHT GAIN; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; LIBIDO; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SALIVA;

CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LIBIDO; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAIN; SALIVA; SLEEP DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952681457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-10-19     Document Type: Article

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