Puberty in nonhuman primates and humans

Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2177-2230

  Plant, Tony M ^a   Witchel, Selma F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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