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Therapeutic methods and delivery systems utilizing sex steroid precursors

  • US 5,728,688 A
  • Filed: 06/07/1995
  • Issued: 03/17/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for inhibiting the development of, or treating, diminished libido comprising administering to a patient in need of such treatment an amount of at least one sex steroid precursor selected from the group consisting of dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, and compounds converted in vivo to either of the foregoing, effective to maintain serum DHEA levels in said patient at between 4 and 13 micrograms per liter.

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