Serum leptin concentration in cord blood: Relationship to birth weight and gender

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1642-1644

  Matsuda, Junko ^a   Yokota, Ichiro ^a   Iida, Mitsuru ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^a   Naito, Etsuo ^a   Ito, Michinori ^a   Shima, Kenji ^a   Kuroda, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LEPTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 0030943487     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.82.5.4063     Document Type: Article

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