Plasma kisspeptin levels in girls with premature thelarche

JCRPE Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 61-65

  Akinci, Ayşehan ^a   Çetin, Dilek ^b   Ilhan, Nevin ^b  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Kisspeptin; Premature thelarche

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AGE; BONE MATURATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HEIGHT STANDARD DEVIATION SCORE; HUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREPUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; BREAST; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KISSPEPTINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN;

EID: 84862902438     PISSN: 13085727     EISSN: 13085735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4274/jcrpe.615     Document Type: Article

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