Catch-up growth: An overview

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 365-378

  Kayemba Kay's, Simon ^a   Hindmarsh, Peter C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catch up growth; Children; Definitions; Leptin; Mechanisms

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; LEPTIN; SOMATOMEDIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CARTILAGE CELL; CATCH UP GROWTH; CELIAC DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC REGULATION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH PLATE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALNUTRITION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; WEIGHT GAIN;

CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS;

EID: 33745759624     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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