Inhibins in childhood and puberty

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-52

  Raivio, Taneli ^a   Dunkel, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Activin; Follicle stimulating hormone; Gonadotrophin; Inhibin; Ovary; Puberty; Testis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; ISOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT LUTEINIZING HORMONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR;

AGE; ALPHA CHAIN; BETA CHAIN; BOY; CHILDHOOD; CORPUS LUTEUM; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CRYPTORCHISM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DRUG EFFECT; GIRL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL VALUE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREPUBERTY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SERUM; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRANULOSA CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEYDIG CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0036432463     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/beem.2001.0179     Document Type: Article

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