Perspectives on leptin's role as a metabolic signal for the onset of puberty

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 26, Issue , 1999, Pages 87-105

  Cheung, Clement C ^a   Clifton, Donald K ^a   Steiner, Robert A ^a,b  

^a Department of Physiology and Biophysics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANIMAL; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MOUSE; NUTRITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MICE; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY; RATS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 0033655854     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000061017     Document Type: Article

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