Control of the onset of puberty

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 551-558

  Livadas, Sarantis ^a   Chrousos, George P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

epigenetics; gonadotropin releasing hormone; inhibitory makorin ring finger protein 3; kisspeptin; KNDy system; neuropeptide Y; RFamide related peptide 3; amino butyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DYNORPHIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROKININ B; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RING FINGER PROTEIN; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; RFAMIDE PEPTIDE;

EPIGENETICS; GONAD FUNCTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PUBERTY; PUBERTY DISORDERS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; DYNORPHINS; ESTRADIOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; KISSPEPTINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROKININ B; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY GLAND; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84978765867     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0000000000000386     Document Type: Review

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