Editorial: The postnatal gonadotropin and sex steroid surge - Insights from the androgen insensitivity syndrome

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 24-28

  Quigley, Charmian A ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 0036146528     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.87.1.24     Document Type: Editorial

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