Early activation of the inhibin B/FSH axis in obese Tanner stage G1PH1 boys

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 327-332

  Fu, Jun Fen ^a   Dong, Guan Ping ^a   Liang, Li ^a   Jiang, You Jun ^a   Chen, Li Qing ^a   Dayan, Colin ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE AGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; OBESITY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MALE; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PUBERTY; TESTIS;

EID: 33747407746     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02597.x     Document Type: Article

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