Growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1 axis during puberty

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-10

  Christoforidis, Athanasios ^a   Maniadaki, Iliana ^a   Stanhope, Richard ^a,b  

^a MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; IGF 1; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; LEPTIN; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C;

BIOSYNTHESIS; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE MINERALIZATION; GROWTH; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; MUSCLE MASS; NUTRITION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION;

CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; MALE; PUBERTY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 32244432031     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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