Catch-up growth: Definition, mechanism, and models

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2002, Pages 1229-1241

  Wit, Jan Maarten ^a   Boersma, Bart ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catch up growth; Growth; Growth hormone; Growth plate; Height velocity

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GROWTH HORMONE; LEVOTHYROXINE; SOMATOMEDIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY HEIGHT; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH PLATE; GROWTH RATE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALNUTRITION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PUBERTY; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT STATURE;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; GROWTH PLATE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NUTRITION DISORDERS;

EID: 0036909058     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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