A single injection of kisspeptin-54 temporarily increases luteinizing hormone pulsatility in healthy women

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 558-563

  Jayasena, C N ^a   Comninos, A N ^a   Veldhuis, J D ^b   Misra, S ^a   Abbara, A ^a   Izzi Engbeaya, C ^a   Donaldson, M ^b   Ghatei, M A ^a   Bloom, S R ^a   Dhillo, W S ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METASTIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; KISSPEPTINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PULSATILE FLOW; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883561554     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12179     Document Type: Article

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