Potential diagnostic utility of intermittent administration of short-acting gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist in gonadotropin deficiency

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2697-2702

  Zimmer, Carrie A ^a   Ehrmann, David A ^a   Rosenfield, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin deficiency; gonadotropin sexual dimorphism; gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE CIPIONATE;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; UPREGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOSAGE FORMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; LEUPROLIDE; MALE; PERIODICITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650189925     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.04.019     Document Type: Article

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