Early influences on the tempo of puberty

Hormone Research

Volumn 65, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2006, Pages 105-111

  Van Weissenbruch, M M ^a   Delemarre van De Waal, H A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adrenarche; Intrauterine growth retardation; Programming; Puberty; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENARCHE; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANOVULATION; ARTERY LIGATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONAD FUNCTION; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MENARCHE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; UTERINE ARTERY; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PUBERTY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745021218     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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