Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 1161-1168 , October 2008

Leptin levels and luteinizing hormone pulsatility in normal cycling women and their relationship to daily changes in metabolic rate

  • Rebecca M. Fenichel, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Rebecca M. Fenichel, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, PH 16-127, New York, NY 10032 (FAX: 212-305-9945).
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  • Jennifer E. Dominguez, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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  • Laurel Mayer, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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  • B. Timothy Walsh, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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  • Carol Boozer, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York
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  • Michelle P. Warren, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York

Received 26 January 2007 ,Revised 16 July 2007 ,Accepted 18 July 2007.

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 B. T. Walsh receives research support from Eli Lilly & Company, Abbott Laboratories, and Ortho McNeil, Inc. M. P. Warren receives research support from Solvay Pharmaceuticals and is a consultant for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Amylin Pharmaceuticals.

PII: S0015-0282(07)03001-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1350

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