The neural basis of puberty and adolescence

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1040-1047

  Sisk, Cheryl L ^a   Foster, Douglas L ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ADOLESCENCE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONAD FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; METAMORPHOSIS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN; GONAD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PUBERTY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 16544370834     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1326     Document Type: Review

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