Volume 10 - Tables of Contents

Number 4, December 1994

Feature Articles

• NOONAN SYNDROME: A REVIEW
  Michael A. Patton, MA, MSc, MB, FRCP

• Prader-Willi Syndrome: Chromosomal and Gene Aberrations
  Uta Francke, MD

• Rationale for Dosing Recombinant Human Growth Hormone by Weight Rather Than Units
  Margaret H. MacGillivray, MD and Robert M. Blizzard, MD

Reviews & Comments

• A Single Amino Acid Substitution in the Exoplasmic Domain of the Human Growth Hormone (GH) Receptor Confers Familial GH Resistance (Laron Syndrome) With Positive GH-Binding Activity by Abolishing Receptor Homodimerization  
• Adrenal Insufficiency and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Low Birth Weight Infants  
• Changes in Body Composition of Children With Chronic Renal Failure During Growth Hormone Treatment  
• Developmental Timing of Dynamic Mutations  
• Diabetes Insipidus With Impaired Osmotic Regulation in Septo-optic Dysplasia and Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum  
• Growth After Renal Transplantation in Prepubertal Children: Impact of Various Treatment Modalities  
• Growth Hormone Treatment in Growth-Retarded Adolescents After Renal Transplant  
• Idiopathic Prepubertal Short Stature Is Associated With Low Body Mass Index
• Phenotype Specific RET Oncogene Mutations and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes  
• Snaring the Achondroplasia and Hypochondroplasia Gene  
• Sucralfate Causes Malabsorption of L-Thyroxine  
• Utah Growth Study: Growth Standards and the Prevalence of Growth Hormone Deficiency  

Number 3, September 1994

Feature Articles

• Insuline-Like Growth Factor 2 And Growth
  Helene Schneld, PhD and Yves Le Bouc, MD

•   Placental Growth Hormone Variant: A Specific Marker of Pregnancy With Still Unknown Functions
  Daniele Evain-Brion, MD, PhD

• The Diagnosis and Management of Craniopharyngioma
  Edward R. Laws, Jr, MD, FACS and Kamal Thapar, MD

• Third International Symposium on nsulin-Like Growth Factors
  Paul Saenger, MD

• The First International Meeting of the Growth Hormone Research Society
  Paul Saenger, MD

Reviews & Comments

• Calcium-Sensing Receptor Genes Mutate and Produce Metabolic Disease  
• Chromosomal Localization of the Human Renal Sodium-Phosphate Transporter to Chromosome 5: Implications for X-linked Hypophosphatemia  
• Genetic Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci for Growth Fatness in Pigs
• Perspectives of Longitudinal Growth in Cystic Fibrosis From Birth to Adult Age  
• Transsphenoidal Surgery for Pituitary Adenomas in Children  
• Turner Syndrome: Natural History, Ethnic and Genetic Influences, Methods for Evaluation of Growth  

Number 2, June 1994

Feature Article

• NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF GROWTH HORMONE SECRETION
  Jesus Argente, MD, PhD and Julie Ann Chowen, PhD

• Serum Polypeptide Hormone-Binding Proteins Part 1: Growth Hormone-Binding Proteins
  Allen W. Root, MD

Reviews & Comments

• Body Composition and Spontaneous GH Secretion in Normal Short Stature Children  
• Catch-up Growth, Persisting Short Stature, and Adult Height of Children Born Small for Gestational Age
• Cognitive Abilities Associated With the Silver-Russell Syndrome  
• Deconvolution Analysis of Spontaneous Nocturnal Growth Hormone Secretion in Prepubertal Children With Preterminal Chronic Renal Failure and With End-Stage Renal Disease
• Delayed Adolescent Growth in Homozygous Sickle Cell Disease  
• Detection of Subtelomeric Chromosomal Rearrangements in Idiopathic Mental Retardation  
• Estrogen Levels in Childhood Determined by an Ultrasensitive Recombinant Cell Bioassay  
• Family History of Alzheimer's Disease May Increase Risk of Birth of Children With Down Syndrome  
• Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis  
• Gene Therapy for Familial Hypercholesterolemia  
• Growth of Short Normal Children in Puberty Treated for 3 Years With Growth Hormone (GH) Alone or in Association With Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonist (GnRHa)  
• Identical Mutations in the FGFR2 Gene Cause Both Pfeiffer and Crouzon Syndrome Phenotypes  
• Is the Etiology of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Related to Superantigen Involvement?  
• Molecular Basis of Mammalian Sexual Determination: Activation of Mullerian Inhibiting Substance Gene Expression by SRY  
• Mouse Obese Gene and Its Human Homologue  
• Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Due to Germ-Line Mosaicism in a Clinically Normal Father  
• Normal Final Height After Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Without Irradiation  

Number 1, March 1994

Feature Articles

• Overgrowth Syndromes and Disorders: Definition, Classification, and Discussion
  David D. Weaver, MS, MD

• The Etiology and Diagnosis of Overgrowth Syndromes
  Kenneth Lyons Jones, MD

• Clinical Pearls: The Differentiation of Constitutional Growth Delay From Nutritional Dwarfism (ND)

Reviews & Comments

• Constitutively Activating Mutation of the Luteinizing Hormone Receptor in Familial Male Precocious Puberty  
• Effect of Weight Loss by Obese Children on Long-Term Growth  
• Effects of Calcitriol and Phosphorus Therapy on the Growth of Patients With X-Linked Hypophosphatemia  
• Effects of Human Growth Hormone Therapy on Melanocytic Naevi  
• Evolution of the Sex-Determining Gene  
• Failure to Improve Height Prediction in Short-Stature Pubertal Adolescents by Inhibiting Puberty with Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone Analogue
• Growth Hormone (GH) Receptors, GH Binding Protein and GH: An Autoregulatory System?  
• Leprechaunism and the Insulin Receptor Gene  
• Mild to Moderate Zinc Deficiency in Short Children: Effect of Zinc Supplementation on Linear Growth Velocity  
• Pharmacologic, Biologic, and Clinical Effects of Recombinant Human IGF-I in GH Insensitivity Syndromes  
• Reduction of Bone Density: An Effect of Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Analogue Treatment in Central Precocious Puberty
• The Role of Estrogens in Disorders of the Male Reproductive Tract  

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