Mini-puberty and true puberty: Differences in testicular function

Annales d'Endocrinologie

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 58-63

  Rey, Rodolfo A ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

AMH; Cryptorchidism; Gonadotrophins; Hypogonadism; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; TESTOSTERONE; FOLLITROPIN;

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE FERTILITY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREMATURITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INFANT; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SECRETION (PROCESS); TESTIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; PUBERTY; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84901281390     PISSN: 00034266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ando.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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