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Normal growth and growth disorders in children

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 1995
Growth in children is influenced by innumerable factors, and to achieve optimal final height, the child has to be healthy, its nutrition sufficient, and the psychosocial environment stimulating and positive. During the 1st year of life nutritional factors and thyroid hormone seem to be the most important regulators of growth; during the following years
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The pituitary in disorders of growth

Disease-a-Month, 1962
Summary Recent hormone research has answered many important questions concerning human growth hormone and its relation to the well recognized endocrine complications of growth hormone excess or deficiencies. The hormonal specificity of the primate somatotropin has been recognized and the therapeutic complications established.
M.L. Parker, W.H. Daughaday
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Disorders of cerebellar growth and development

Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2006
This review summarizes for the pediatrician the current understanding of normal cerebellar and brainstem development, and then discusses selected malformations to highlight advances in the area. The impact of prematurity on cerebellar growth and development is then examined.
Adre J. du Plessis, Catherine Limperopoulos   +1 more
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Growth of Interest in Personality Disorders

American Journal of Psychiatry, 2001
A Medline search is not enough to elucidate the increasing interest in personality disorders.
Lars von Knorring, Viveka Alton, Lisa Ekselius   +2 more
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GENOMIC IMPRINTING IN DISORDERS OF GROWTH [PDF]

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America, 1996
This review has briefly considered some of the vast amount of information that has been gathered on genomic imprinting and its role in PWS, AS, BWS and Russell-Silver syndrome. The pace of investigation into the phenomenon of imprinting will undoubtedly continue, because our understanding remains far from complete.
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Disorders of Fetal Growth

1971
Growth is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as an increase in size, height, or quantity. To the clinician, in broad terms, body growth is synonymous with increase in body mass and this is most easily assessed by serial measurement of weight. In normal intrauterine life, increasing weight can be assumed to represent the orderly process of growth.
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Hair Growth and Disorders

2008
Biology of the Hair Follicle.- The Endocrine Control of the Hair Follicle.- Neuroimmunology of the Hair Follicle.- Biology of Hair Follicle Pigmentation.- Hair Follicle Vascularization and Innervation.- Molecular Genetics of Human Hair Diseases.- Histology of the Human Hair Follicle.- Hair Growth Assessment Techniques.- Male Androgenetic Alopecia ...
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Growth Disorders

The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Melissa J Schoelwer, A. Rogol
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Genetic Disorders of Human Growth

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2002
Growth in humans is a complex process, controlled at numerous levels and by a myriad of factors. These factors may act centrally or peripherally and may be hormones, receptors, or transcription factors. Many of these probably are still unknown. The factors that are discussed here include those that act on the developing pituitary gland (transcription ...
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Early Detection, Referral, Investigation, and Diagnosis of Children with Growth Disorders

Hormone Research in Paediatrics, 2016
M. Savage, P. Backeljauw, R. Calzada, S. Cianfarani, L. Dunkel, E. Koledova, J. Wit, H. Yoo   +7 more
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