Normal female puberty in a developmental perspective

Endocrine Development

Volumn 22, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-23

  Bourguignon, Jean Pierre ^a   Juul, Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANDROGEN; DRUG THERAPY; ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND; ESTROGEN; GHRELIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LEPTIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PRASTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HESX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PROP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANOVULATION; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; DRUG THERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; FETAL MALNUTRITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; KALLMANN SYNDROME; LEPTIN DEFICIENCY; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NUTRITION; OVERNUTRITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS; SYMPTOM;

EID: 84925965344     PISSN: 14217082     EISSN: 16622979     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000326624     Document Type: Review

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