Serum leptin levels in children with cerebral palsy: Relationship with growth and nutritional status

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 507-512

  Yakut, Ayten ^a   Dinleyici, Ener Cagri ^a   Idem, Sadi ^a   Yarar, Coskun ^a   Dogruel, Nesrin ^a   Colak, Omer ^a  

^a OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Children; Leptin; Malnutrition; Neurology

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; LEPTIN; PROTEIN C;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE METABOLISM; CALORIC INTAKE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MOBILIZATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPASTICITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 33845968174     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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