Title : Neuroendocrine effect of a short-term treatment with DHEA in postmenopausal women.

Pub. Date : 1998 Jan 12

PMID : 9571601






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1 The clonidine test induced a significant increase of plasma beta-EP levels in women after receiving DHEA supplementation but not before; conversely, plasma GM levels increased both before and after treatment. Clonidine proopiomelanocortin Homo sapiens
2 CONCLUSIONS: The present study indicates that short-term DHEA supplementation in postmenopausal women is able to restore the impaired response of pituitary beta-EP to clonidine, an alpha 2 presinaptic agonist. Clonidine proopiomelanocortin Homo sapiens