Effects of a 3-week dehydroepiandrosterone administration on sleep, sex steroids and multiple 24-h hormonal profiles in postmenopausal women: A pilot study

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 716-724

  Caufriez, Anne ^a,b   Leproult, Rachel ^a,c   L'Hermite Balériaux, Mireille ^a   Kerkhofs, Myriam ^a   Copinschi, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANEDIOL GLUCURONIDE; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; GLUCURONIDE; GONADOTROPIN; PRASTERONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; PILOT STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLEEP QUALITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANDROGENS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84885306320     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12201     Document Type: Article

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