The neuroendocrinology of human puberty revisited

Hormone Research

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2002, Pages 2-14

  Grumbach, Melvin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; CNS; Delayed puberty; Foetus; Hypothalamus; Leptin; LHRH; Precocious puberty; Puberty; Sexual infantilism; Sexual precocity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; PROGESTERONE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; JUVENILE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GONAD; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; METABOLISM; NEUROSECRETION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; REVIEW; SECRETION; TURNER SYNDROME;

ANIMAL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADORELIN; GONADS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NEUROTRANSMITTERS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROGESTERONE; PUBERTY; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; TESTOSTERONE; TURNER SYNDROME; ANIMALS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS;

EID: 0036285444     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000058094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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