Comparison of the neuroendocrine control of pubertal maturation in girls and boys with spontaneous puberty and in hypogonadal girls

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4352-4357

  Cemeroglu, Ayse Pinar ^a   Foster, Carol M ^a   Warner, Robert ^a   Kletter, Gad B ^a   Marshall, John C ^a   Kelch, Robert P ^a  

^a Box 0718 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PUBERTY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0029823643     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.12.4352     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Lee PA, Plotnick LP, Steele RE, et al. 1976 Integrated concentrations of luteinizing hormone and puberty. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 43:168-172.
2. Parker CD, Judd HL, Rossman LG, et al. 1975 Pubertal sleep-wake patterns of episodic LH, FSH and testosterone release in twin boys. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 40:1099-1109.
3. Judd HL, Parker DC, Yen SSC. 1977 Sleep-wake patterns of LH and testosterone release in prepubertal boys. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 44:865-869.
4. Kulin HE, Moore RG, Santner SJ. 1976 Circadian rhythms in gonadotropin excretion in prepubertal and pubertal children. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 42:770-773.
5. Kletter GB, Kelch RP. 1993 Disorders of puberty in boys. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 22:455-477.
6. Boyar RM, Rosenfeld RS, Kapen S, et al. 1974 Simultaneous augmented secretion of luteinizing hormone and testosterone during sleep. J Clin Invest. 54:609-618.
7. Marshall JC, Kelch RP. 1986 Gonadotropin-releasing hormone: role of pulsatile secretion in the regulation of reproduction. N Engl J Med. 315:1459-1468.
8. Oerter KE, Uriarte MM, Rose SR, et al. 1990 Gonadotropin secretory dynamics during puberty in normal girls and boys. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 71:1251-1258.
9. Boyar RM, Finkelstein JW, Roffwang HP, et al. 1972 Synchronization of augmented luteinizing hormone secretion with sleep during puberty. N Engl J Med. 287:582-586.
10. Bridges NA, Hindmarsh PC, Pringle PJ, et al. 1993 The relationship between endogenous testosterone and gonadotropin secretion. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 38;373-378.
11. Bridges NA, Hindmarsh PC, Matthews DR, et al. 1994 The effect of changing gonadotropin releasing hormone pulse frequency on puberty. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 79:841-847.
12. Hale PM, Khoury S, Foster CM, et al. 1988 Increased luteinizing hormone pulse frequency during sleep in early to midpubertal boys: effects of testosterone infusion. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 66:785-791.
13. Foster CM, Hassing JM, Mendes TM, et al. 1989 Testosterone infusion reduces nocturnal luteinizing hormone pulse frequency in pubertal boys. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 69:1213-1220.
14. Greulich WW, Pyle SI. 1959 Radiographic atlas of skeletal development of the hand and wrist, 2nd ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
15. Tanner JM. 1978 Growth at adolescence. Oxford: Blackwell.
16. Midgley Jr AR. 1978 Radioimmunoassay: a method for human chorionic gonadotropin and human LH. Endocrinology. 79:10-18.
17. Oerter KE, Guardabusso V, Rodbard D. 1986 Determination and characterization of peaks and estimation of instantaneous secretion rate for episode hormone secretion. Comput Biomed Res. 19:170-191.
18. Rossmanith WG, Liu CH, Laughlin GA, et al. 1990 Relative changes in LH pulsatility during the menstrual cycle: using data from hypogonadal women as a reference point. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 32:647-660.
19. Apter D, Butzow TL, Laughlin GA, et al. 1993 Gonadotropin-releasing hormone pulse generator activity during pubertal transition in girls: pulsatile and diurnal patterns of circulating gonadotropins. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 76:940-949.
20. Klein KO, Baron J, Colli MJ, et al. 1994 Estrogen levels in childhood determined by an ultrasensitive recombinant cell bioassay. J Clin Invest. 94:2475-2480.
21. Mauras N, Rogol AD, Veldhuis JD. 1989 Specific, time-dependent actions of low-dose ethinyl estradiol administration on the episodic release of growth hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, and luteinizing hormone in prepubertal girls with Turner's syndrome. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 69:1053-1058.
22. Boyar RM, Finkelstein JW, Roffwarg H, et al. 1973 Twenty-four-hour luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone secretory patterns in gonadal dysgenesis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 37:521-525.
23. Urban MD, Migeon CJ, Lee PA. 1981 Pubertal secretory patterns of gonadotropins in hypergonadotropic patients (Turner syndrome). Horm Res. 14:209-214.
24. Kletter GB, Padmanabhan V, Foster CM, et al. 1993 Luteinizing hormone pulse characteristics in early pubertal boys are the same whether measured by radioimmuno- or immunofluorometric assay. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 76:1173-1176.
25. Gay VL, Plant TM. 1988 Sustained intermittent release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in the prepubertal male rhesus monkey induced by N-methyl-DL-ASPARTIC ACID. NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY. 48:147-152.