Circulating antimüllerian hormone levels in boys decline during early puberty and correlate with inhibin B

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1242-1247

  Hero, Matti ^a   Tommiska, Johanna ^a,b   Vaaralahti, Kirsi ^a,b   Laitinen, Eeva Maria ^a,b   Sipilä, Ilkka ^a   Puhakka, Lea ^b   Dunkel, Leo ^c   Raivio, Taneli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMH; aromatase inhibitors; idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism; inhibin B; ISS; letrozole; puberty

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN B; LETROZOLE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; KALLMANN SYNDROME; MALE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SERTOLI CELL; SHORT STATURE; TESTIS SIZE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DOWN-REGULATION; GROWTH DISORDERS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; INHIBINS; KALLMANN SYNDROME; MALE; NITRILES; PLACEBOS; PUBERTY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84860322528     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.02.020     Document Type: Article

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