The role of sex steroids in controlling pubertal growth

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-15

  Perry, R J ^a,b   Farquharson, C ^b   Ahmed, S F ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTROGEN; FULVESTRANT; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH FACTOR; OXANDROLONE; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TAMOXIFEN;

ADRENARCHE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EPIPHYSIS; GONAD FUNCTION; GONADAL DISEASE; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH PERIOD; GROWTH PLATE; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPERGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; MENARCHE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; PUBERTY;

EID: 36949033137     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02960.x     Document Type: Review

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