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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...

    Liora Lazar in Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease (2012)

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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...

    Galia Gat-Yablonski, Moshe Phillip in Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring i… (2012)