Effect of low-dose testosterone treatment on adrogen regulated proteins prostate specific antigen and sex hormone binding globulin in short prepubertal boys: Lack of initiation of puberty

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-62

  Gupta, Manjula K ^a   Brown, D C ^b   Faiman, C ^a   Kelnar, C J H ^b   Wu, F C W ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constitutional delay of growth; Free androgen index; Luteinizing hormone; Prostate specific antigen; Puberty; Sex hormone binding globulin; Testosterone; Testosterone undecanoate

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PLACEBO; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; SEX HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; GROWTH STIMULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PREPUBERTY; PUBERTY; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT STATURE; SLEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; CHILD; DELAYED PUBERTY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ANDROGENS; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PUBERTY, DELAYED; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0038487095     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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