Metabolic signals in human puberty: Effects of over and undernutrition

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 324, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 70-81

  Martos Moreno, G Á ^a,b   Chowen, J A ^a,b   Argente, J ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL UNIVERSITARIO NIÑO JESÚS   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anorexia; Ghrelin; Growth; Leptin; Obesity; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; ADIPONECTIN; GHRELIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE RECEPTOR; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NUCLEAR FACTOR Y; PEPTIDE YY; RESISTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AMENORRHEA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENERGY BALANCE; FOOD INTAKE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; OVERNUTRITION; PUBERTY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77953963360     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2009.12.017     Document Type: Review

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