Hyperandrogenaemia in adolescent girls: Origins of abnormal gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-149

  Burt Solorzano, C M ^a,b   McCartney, C R ^a,b   Blank, S K ^a,b   Knudsen, K L ^a,b   Marshall, J C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Center for Research in Reproduction   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ADOLESCENT; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; NOTE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPERANDROGENISM; INFANT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PROGESTERONE; PUBERTY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 72449143124     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02383.x     Document Type: Note

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