Volume 12 - Tables of Contents

Number 4, December 1996

Feature Article

RECOMBINANT HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE THERAPY FOR CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY: AN UPDATE 1996
Richard N. Fine, MD

Reviews & Comments

• A Regression Method Including Chronological and Bone Age for Predicting Final Height in Turner's Syndrome (PTS), With a Comparison of Existing Methods  
• Functional Activation of Mutant Human Insulin Receptor by Monoclonal Antibody  
• Molecular Definition of Breakpoints Associated With Human Xq Isochromosomes: Implications for Mechanisms of Formation  
• Morphogenesis and Tumors "Patched" Together in Gorlin Syndrome  
• Mutations in the Ca 2+ - Sensing Receptor Gene Cause Autosomal Dominant and Sporadic Hypoparathryoidism  
• Nonsense Mutation in the Human Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Receptor Causes Growth Failure Analogous to the Little (lit) Mouse  
• Protein Turnover During Puberty in Normal Children  
• Putting the Brakes on Bone Growth  
• Skeletal Overgrowth and Deafness in Mice Lacking Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 3  
• The Role of Proteoglycans in Overgrowth Syndrome  

Number 3, September 1996

Feature Articles

• ACTIVATING MUTATIONS IN G PROTEIN-COUPLED SIGNALING PATHWAYS AS A CAUSE OF ENDOCRINE DISEASE
  Andrew Shenker, MD, PhD

• GH Axis – Child and Adolescent: A Review of the Clinical Oral Session
  Robert M. Blizzard, MD

Reviews & Comments

• Autoantibodies to the Extracellular Domain of the Calcium Sensing Receptor in Patients With Acquired Hypoparathyroidism  
• Behavioral Phenotypes in Dysmorphic Syndromes  
• Effects of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (rhGH) Treatment in Intrauterine Growth-Retarded Preterm Newborn Infants on Growth, Body Composition and Energy Expenditure
• Follow-Up of Three Years of Treatment With Growth Hormone and of One Post-Treatment Year, in Children With Severe Growth Retardation of Intrauterine Onset  
• Growth and Physical Outcome of Children Conceived by in Vitro Fertilization  
• Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-3 Generation: An Index of Growth Hormone (GH) Insensitivity  
• Prenatal Diagnosis of 45,X/46,XX Mosaicism and 45,X: Implications for Postnatal Outcome  
• Short Stature Caused by a Mutant Growth Hormone  
• Specification of Pituitary Cell Lineages by the Lim Homeobox Gene Lhx3  
• Teratogen Update: Diethylstilbestrol  
• Teratogenicity of High Vitamin A Intake  
• Testicular and Ovarian Resistance to Luteinizing Hormone Caused by Inactivating Mutations of the Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Gene  
• The Relation of Transient Hypothyroxinemia in Preterm Infants to Neurologic Development at Two Years of Age  

Number 2, June 1996

Feature Article

OSTEOPOROTIC SYNDROMES IN CHILDHOOD
Joseph M. Gertner, MD

Reviews & Comments

• A Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Study of the Effects of Low-Dose Testosterone Undecanoate on the Growth of Small for Age, Prepubertal Boys  
• A Gene (PEX) With Homologies to Endopeptidases Is Mutated in Patients With X-Linked Hypophosphatemic Rickets  
• A Novel Transcriptional Activator Originating From an Upstream Promoter in the Human Growth Hormone Gene  
• Computer-Aided Skeletal Age Scores in Healthy Children, Girls With Turner Syndrome, and in Children With Constitutionally Tall Stature  
• Correction of the Sterility Defect in Homozygous Obese Female Mice by Treatment With the Human Recombinant Leptin  
• Does Linear Growth Occur Continuously or as "Saltatory" Growth?  
• Evidence That the Diabetes Gene Encodes the Leptin Receptor: Identification of a Mutation in the Leptin Receptor Gene in db/db Mice
• Identification of a Stimulator of Steroid Hormone Synthesis Isolated From Testis   Growth in Full-Term Small-for-Gestational-Age Infants: From Birth to Final Height   Male Pseudohermaphroditism Due to a Homozygous Mutation of the LH Receptor Gene  
• Insensitivity to Anti-Müllerian Hormone Due to a Mutation in the Human Anti-Müllerian Hormone Receptor  
• Intranasal Administration of GHRP Hexarelin Accelerates Growth in Short Children  
• No Reduction in Birth Weight in Phenylketonuria  
• Nondisjunction in Human Sperm: Evidence for an Effect of Increasing Paternal Age  
• Ob/Ob and Db/Db Gene(s), Obesity, and Sterility, and Relationships to Leptin  
• Plasma Growth Hormone Response to Growth Hormone-Releasing Hexapeptide (GHRP-6) in Children With Short Stature  
• Short-Term Effect of Testosterone Treatment on Reduced Bone Density in Boys With Constitutional Delay of Puberty  

Number 1, March 1996

Feature Articles

• Allelic Expansion Underlies Many Genetic Diseases
  David L. Nelson, PhD

• Genetics of 3b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Deficiency Disorder
  Songya Pang, MD

Reviews & Comments

• Final Height and Predicted Height in Boys With Untreated Constitutional Growth Delay  
• Gonadoblastoma: Molecular Definition of the Susceptibility Region on the Y Chromosome  
• Lymphocytic Hypophysitis: Clinicopathological Findings  
• Microphallus: Eventual Phallic Size Is Dependent on the Timing of Androgen Administration  
• Mutations of the Growth Hormone Receptor in Children With Idiopathic Short Stature
• One Gene, Three Chondrodysplasias: Déjà vu  
• The Role of the obese Gene and Its Product in Obesity  
• The Role of the Sulfonylurea Receptor in Insulin Secretion  

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