The impact of reversible gonadal sex steroid suppression on serum leptin concentrations in children with central precocious puberty

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1091-1096

  Palmert, Mark R ^a,b   Radovick, Sally ^a   Boepple, Paul A ^c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESLORELIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HISTRELIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; OBESITY; PROTEINS; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RECEPTORS, LHRH; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031732996     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.4.1091     Document Type: Article

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