Reference values for serum dehydroepiandrosterone-sulphate in healthy children and adolescents with emphasis on the age of adrenarche and pubarche

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 712-718

  Guran, Tulay ^a,b   Firat, Irfan ^a   Yildiz, Feyza ^a   Kaplan Bulut, Ipek ^a   Dogru, Mahmut ^a   Bereket, Abdullah ^b  

^a Training Hospital   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE SULFATE; ANDROGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENARCHE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAIR; HAIR GROWTH; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PRASTERONE SULFATE BLOOD LEVEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PUBIC HAIR; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; TANNER STAGE; AGE; BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; LUMINESCENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENARCHE; AGE FACTORS; ANDROGENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; INFANT; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; PUBERTY; REFERENCE VALUES; ROC CURVE; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84926674681     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12612     Document Type: Article

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