Developmental variations in environmental influences including endocrine disruptors on pubertal timing and neuroendocrine control: Revision of human observations and mechanistic insight from rodents

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-36

  Parent, Anne Simone ^a,b   Franssen, Delphine ^a   Fudvoye, Julie ^a,b   Gérard, Arlette ^a,b   Bourguignon, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Endocrine disruptors; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Puberty; Secular trends

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

BREAST DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIET RESTRICTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPOSURE; GENETIC REGULATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIPID DIET; MENARCHE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; RODENT; STRESS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NEUROSECRETION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; RODENTIA; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84931566036     PISSN: 00913022     EISSN: 10956808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2014.12.004     Document Type: Review

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