Increase of serum leptin after short-term pulsatile GnRH administration in children with delayed puberty

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 691-698

  Grasemann, Corinna ^a   Wessels, Hendrika T ^a   Knauer Fischer, Sabine ^a   Richter Unruh, Annette ^a   Hauffa, Berthold P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RELEFACT; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHESIS; INFUSION PUMP; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BUSERELIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEPTIN; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PUBERTY, DELAYED;

EID: 2942722288     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.0.1500691     Document Type: Article

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