The physiology of puberty and its disorders

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Loomba Albrecht, Lindsey A ^a   Styne, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; VASOPRESSIN;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; DELAYED PUBERTY; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPERGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALNUTRITION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PUBERTY; PUBERTY DISORDERS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TURNER SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PUBERTY; PUBERTY, DELAYED; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

EID: 84860211347     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/00904481-20120307-08     Document Type: Article

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