The neuroendocrine timing of puberty

Reproduction

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 675-683

  Ebling, Francis J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ANDROGEN; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; LEPTIN; MELANIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OREXIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MONKEY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEURONS; PUBERTY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 21044448847     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00367     Document Type: Review

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