Hypothalamic mechanism of the onset of puberty

Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-49

  Terasawa, Ei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BETA ENDORPHIN; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADORELIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

GAMETOGENESIS; GLIA; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEUROSECRETION; NONHUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PUBERTY; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 0033051602     PISSN: 10683097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00060793-199902000-00008     Document Type: Review

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