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Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonists and Sexual Growth in Precocious, Early, and Normal Puberty
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists are considered the treatment of choice for central precocious puberty. They are also administered for postponing puberty in short children with a poor final height progn...
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Nutritional-Induced Longitudinal Catch-Up Growth: A Focus on the Growth Plate, Growth-Related Genes, Autophagy, mTOR, and microRNAs
The association between nutrition and linear growth in children is well accepted: the growth of the human skeleton requires an adequate supply of many different nutritional factors and a close relationship exi...