Puberty
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Increased vulnerability of the spinal cord to radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy during adolescence: A report from the Children's Oncology Group.

13 Dec 2009 PURPOSE: To assess the rate of spinal cord toxicity in adolescents resulting from chemoradiotherapy of parameningeal sarcoma. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Of 152 patients with parameningeal sarcoma treated per the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group ... Read more...

Aurora B expression in post-puberal testicular germ cell tumours.

30 Oct 2009 Aurora/Ipl1-related kinases are a conserved family of proteins that are essential for the regulation of chromosome segregation and cytokinesis during mitosis. Aberrant expression and activity of these kinases occur in a wide range of human tumours ... Read more...

Acute illness induces the release of aversive odor cues from adult, but not prepubertal, male rats and suppresses social investigation by conspecifics.

29 Sep 2009 The present study examined odorant communication during acute illness provoked by injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS; 100 microg/kg) and how these effects vary between prepubertal and adult conspecifics. Exposure to odor of LPS-treated adult male ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Puberty'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Increased vulnerability of the spinal cord to radiation or intrathecal chemotherapy during adolescence: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. 13 Dec 2009
• Aurora B expression in post-puberal testicular germ cell tumours. 30 Oct 2009
• Acute illness induces the release of aversive odor cues from adult, but not prepubertal, male rats and suppresses social investigation by conspecifics. 29 Sep 2009
• Effect of timing on the outcomes of 1-phase nonextraction therapy of Class II malocclusion. 29 Sep 2009
• Use of cervical vertebral maturation to determine skeletal age. 29 Sep 2009
• Growth patterns in children with sickle cell anemia during puberty. 29 Sep 2009
• Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism due to a novel missense mutation in the first extracellular loop of the neurokinin B receptor. 13 Sep 2009
• The mammalian target of rapamycin as novel central regulator of puberty onset via modulation of hypothalamic Kiss1 system. 2 Sep 2009
• Relationship between bronchial hyperreactivity and asthma remission during adolescence. 30 Aug 2009
• Strategies for maximizing growth in puberty in children with short stature. 30 Aug 2009
• Target height estimation in children with idiopathic short stature who are referred to the growth clinic. 30 Aug 2009
• Forearm length - a new tool to standardize bone parameters of the forearm measured with peripheral quantitative computed tomography in individuals with disproportional growth of forearm length and body height. 30 Aug 2009
• Heritability of childhood weight gain from birth and risk markers for adult metabolic disease in prepubertal twins. 30 Aug 2009
• Stability of the factor structure of the metabolic syndrome across pubertal development: confirmatory factor analyses of three alternative models. 30 Aug 2009
• [Growth: what is normal?] 24 Aug 2009
• Comparison of adolescents with Klinefelter syndrome according to the circumstances of diagnosis: amniocentesis versus clinical signs. 16 Aug 2009
• Longitudinal pubertal growth according to age at pubertal growth spurt onset: data from a Spanish study including 458 children (223 boys and 235 girls). 30 Jul 2009
• Phenotypic delineation of Emanuel syndrome (supernumerary derivative 22 syndrome): Clinical features of 63 individuals. 30 Jul 2009
• Onset of puberty and cardiovascular risk factors in untreated obese children and adolescents: a 1-year follow-up study. 30 Jul 2009
• Longitudinal changes in regional fat content in HIV-infected children and adolescents. 29 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Puberty'

Definition: A period in the human life in which the development of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal system takes place and reaches full maturity. The onset of synchronized endocrine events in puberty lead to the capacity for reproduction (FERTILITY), development of secondary SEX CHARACTERISTICS, and other changes seen in ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT.

Descriptor UI: D011627

Alternative terms: Puberty; Puberties;

Related Mesh Headings: Sexual Maturation;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug effects; ethnology; genetics; immunology; metabolism; physiology; psychology; radiation effects; urine;

Tree Number: G08.686.760; G08.686.785.760.960.374;

Technical Notes: human only: for animal use AGING; GROWTH or SEX MATURATION