Leptin changes in Taiwanese girls with central precocious puberty before and during the GnRH agonist treatment

Acta Paediatrica Taiwanica

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Su, Pen Hua ^a,b   Wang, Shu Li ^a,b,c   Lin, Chin Yu ^c   Chen, Jia Yuh ^b   Changlai, Cheng Pin ^b   Jian, Shu Hua ^b   Chen, Suh Jen ^b  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Central precocious puberty; Girl; Gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist; Leptin

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEPTIN; LEUPRORELIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TAIWAN;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LEUPROLIDE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

EID: 33644947912     PISSN: 16088115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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