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BMC Research Notes, 2019 Objectives To determine the influence of sexual maturation status on adiposity indicators of children and adolescents. Results 2412 individuals participated, 1285 (47.4%) males and 1408 (52.6%) females.
Livia Akemi Ramos Takahashi +4 more
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Genome-wide association study (GWAS) for growth rate and age at sexual maturation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Early sexual maturation is considered a serious drawback for Atlantic salmon aquaculture as it retards growth, increases production times and affects flesh quality. Although both growth and sexual maturation are thought to be complex processes controlled
Alejandro P Gutierrez +4 more
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Sexual Maturation, Attitudes towards Sexual Maturity, and Body Esteem in Elementary-School Children [PDF]
Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing, 2018 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate sexual maturation, attitudes toward sexual maturity, and body esteem in the sexual development of Korean elementary-school boys and girls.
Sunah Park +5 more
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Review of Sexual Maturity in the Minipig [PDF]
Toxicologic Pathology, 2016 It is important to know whether the animals used in toxicology studies are sexually mature. As minipigs are being used increasingly in toxicity studies, we reviewed published data on the age of sexual maturity in the minipig. Maturity in females was assessed on the basis either of normal cycles of progesterone secretion or of the histological presence ...
Paul C, Howroyd +2 more
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Sexual maturation and the adrenal glands [PDF]
Reproduction, 1978 It is a definite possibility that organs which are primarily elements of functional systems other than the reproductive system are involved in sexual maturation. The adrenal glands are attractive candidates for such a role in sexual maturation: they are capable of producing androgens, oestrogens and progesterone, not only in the adult, but also in the ...
H M, Meijs-Roelofs, J, Moll
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Function and Evolution of Nuclear Receptors in Environmental-Dependent Postembryonic Development
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 Nuclear receptors (NRs) fulfill key roles in the coordination of postembryonal developmental transitions in animal species. They control the metamorphosis and sexual maturation in virtually all animals and by that the two main environmental-dependent ...
Jan Taubenheim +2 more
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Aquaculture and Fisheries, 2018 The present study was conducted to characterize the lipid and fatty acid profiles in different tissues (gonad, liver and muscle) of the wild-caught devil stinger during sexual maturation.
Songlin Li +4 more
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NeuroImage, 2020 Though adolescence is a time of emerging sex differences in emotions, sex-related differences in the anatomy of the maturing brain has been under-explored over this period.
Pauline Bezivin Frere +24 more
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Sexual maturation in Turkish boys
Annals of Human Biology, 1975 Ages of onset and attainment of various stages of secondary sexual characters were assessed from cross-sectional data on 1530 city schoolboys in Istanbul, Turkey. The subjects were grouped into four socio-economic classes. Ages of onset of pubic hair (11.80 years), axillary hair (13.15 years), facial hair (14.45 years) and laryngeal development (13.37 ...
O, Neyzi +4 more
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