Older men exhibit reduced efficacy of and heightened potency downregulation by intravenous pulses of recombinant human LH: A study in 92 healthy men

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 302, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Veldhuis, Johannes D ^a   Liu, Peter Y ^b   Keenan, Daniel M ^c   Takahashi, Paul Y ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b WOOLCOCK INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Gonadal; Gonadotropin; Luteinizing hormone; Male; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RECOMBINANT LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG INFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATIC VEIN; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KINETICS; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83455242982     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00450.2011     Document Type: Article

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