Cranial irradiation of female rats causes dose-dependent and age- dependent activation or inhibition of pubertal development

Pediatric Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 586-591

  Roth, Christian ^a   Schmidberger, Heinz ^b   Schaper, Oliver ^b   Leonhardt, Sabine ^b   Lakomek, Max ^b   Wuttke, Wolfgang ^b   Jarry, Hubertus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; LEUKEMIA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SKULL IRRADIATION;

EID: 0034016284     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-200005000-00005     Document Type: Article

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