Determinants of female reproductive senescence: Differential roles for the ovary and the neuroendocrine axis

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 370-379

  Buyuk, Erkan ^a   Nejat, Edward ^a   Neal Perry, Genevieve ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Female; neuroendocrine; ovary; reproduction; senescence

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MORBIDITY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; POSTMENOPAUSE; REVIEW; SENESCENCE;

AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; OVARY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 77956954733     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1262896     Document Type: Review

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