Normal pubertal development: Part I: The endocrine basis of puberty

Pediatrics in Review

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 223-229

  Bordini, Brian ^a   Rosenfield, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

17 OXOSTEROID; 3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; AROMATASE; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; FOLLITROPIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INHIBIN; KISSPEPTIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; SULFOTRANSFERASE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENARCHE; ANDROGEN RELEASE; APPETITE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BONE AGE; BONE MATURATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GAMETE; GONAD FUNCTION; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEYDIG CELL; LIVER; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANDROGENS; GONADS; HORMONES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; PITUITARY GLAND; PUBERTY;

EID: 79958020896     PISSN: 01919601     EISSN: 15263347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/pir.32-6-223     Document Type: Review

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