Pediatric endocrinology update: An overview. The essential roles of estrogens in pubertal growth, epiphyseal fusion and bone turnover: Lessons from mutations in the genes for aromatase and the estrogen receptor

Hormone Research

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 2-8

  MacGillivray, Margaret H ^a,e   Morishima, Akira ^b   Conte, Felix ^c   Grumbach, Melvin ^c   Smith, Eric P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b The Babies and Children's Hospital ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Epiphyseal fusion; Estrogen receptor; Female pseudohermaphroditism; Hyperinsulinemia; Maternal virilization; Osteoporosis; Pubertal growth

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GLUCOSE; GONADOTROPIN; INSULIN; LIPID;

BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE TURNOVER; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EPIPHYSIS; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PEDIATRICS; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RECEPTOR GENE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; VIRILIZATION;

ADULT; AROMATASE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EPIPHYSES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MUTATION; PUBERTY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 0031934744     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000053061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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