Mechanism of hot flashes

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 143-147

  Vilar González, Santiago ^a   Pérez Rozos, Alberto ^a   Cabanillas Farpón, Ruben ^a  

^a IMOMA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gonadotrophin releasing hormone analogues; Hormonal deprivation; Hot flashes; Orchiectomy; Pathophysiology; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; CATECHOL ESTROGEN; CLONIDINE; CYTOKINE INDUCED NEUTROPHIL CHEMOATTRACTANT; DOPAMINE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 8; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NALOXONE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; TESTOSTERONE; YOHIMBINE;

CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MENOPAUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE;

EID: 79958216395     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: 16993055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-011-0633-x     Document Type: Review

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