Exercise and Secondary Amenorrhoea Linked Through Endogenous Opioids

Overview

Journal Sports Med

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 1990 Aug 1

PMID 2204099

Citations 6

Authors

M T Ruffin 4th

R E HUNTER

E A Arendt

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