Abnormalities in Puberty: Scientific and Clinical Advances.RJ418 2004-026715 3-8055-7867-9 Abnormalities in puberty; scientific and clinical advances. Title main entry. Ed. by Henriette Delemarre-van de Waal. (Endocrine development; v.8) S. Karger, AG, [c]2005 181 p. $149.25 European and American scientists summarize the current clinical and fundamental knowledge of the physiology and pathophysiology pathophysiology /patho·phys·i·ol·o·gy/ (-fiz?e-ol´ah-je) the physiology of disordered function. path·o·phys·i·ol·o·gy n. 1. of puberty and its disorders, to help clinicians manage children with too early onset of puberty, with delayed puberty, and other puberty disorders. The topics include the secular trend secular trend The relatively consistent movement of a variable over a long period. A stock in a secular uptrend is an indicator that the security has experienced an extended period of rising prices. of timing of puberty, the adrenal adrenal /ad·re·nal/ (ah-dre´n'l) 1. paranephric. 2. adrenal gland. 3. pertaining to an adrenal gland. ad·re·nal adj. 1. function of low-birthweight children, the molecular genetics of isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and Kallmann syndrome, gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue A polypeptide analogue of gonadotropin-releasing hormone–GnRH; some are more potent than GnRH in stimulating gonadotropin release Examples Leuprolide, histrelin, administered in a pulsatile fashion to restore lost GnRH, treatment for precocious puberty, polycycstic ovary ovary, ductless gland of the female in which the ova (female reproductive cells) are produced. In vertebrate animals the ovary also secretes the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone, which control the development of the sexual organs and the secondary sexual syndrome in adolescence, and present and future options for preserving fertility in female adolescents with cancer. |
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