Cord blood leptin concentrations in relation to intrauterine growth

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 177-183

  Varvarigou, Anastasia ^a   Mantzoros, Christos S ^b,c   Beratis, Nicholas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; LEPTIN;

APPETITE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; FEMALE; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PROTEINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042812816     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00630.x     Document Type: Article

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