Volume 13 - Tables of Contents

Number 4, December 1997

Feature Article

MOLECULAR GENETICS OF HUMAN CHONDRODYSPLASIAS
William A. Horton, MD

Reviews & Comments

• "Master Gene" for Bone Formation
• Gonadal Function After Bone Marrow Transplantation for Acute Leukemia During Childhood  
• Growth Hormone in Combination With Anabolic Steroids in Patients With Turner Syndrome: Effect on Bone Maturation and Final Height
• Growth Hormone Treatment in Growth-Retarded Children With End-Stage Renal Failure: Effect on Free/Dissociable IGF-1 Levels  
• Longitudinal Assessment of Hormonal and Physical Alterations During Normal Puberty in Boys, V: Rising Leptin Levels May Signal the Onset of Puberty
• Pancreatic Agenesis Attributable to a Single Nucleotide Deletion in the Human IPF1 Gene Coding Sequence  
• SHOX, Short Stature and Turner Syndrome
• Widespread Growth Retardation and Variable Growth Recovery in Foster Children in the First Year After Initial Placement  

Number 3, September 1997

Feature Articles

• GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUES: PHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTION
  Allen W. Root, MD; Frank B. Diamond, Jr, MD

• Tyrosine Kinases: Their Role in Producing Endocrine and Other Cancers
  Kathryn S. Kolibaba, MD; Brian J. Druker, MD

Reviews & Comments

• Adult Height in Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) Children Treated With Biosynthetic GH
• Dwarf Mice and the Aging Process  
• Low-Dose Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Increases Body Weight and Lean Body Mass in Patients With Short Bowel Syndrome
• Mechanisms and Treatment of Growth Retardation in Children With Liver Transplants
• Recombinant Human Growth Hormone and Recombinant Human Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 in Patients With HIV-Associated Wasting
• Trisomy 21: A Possible Molecular Basis  

Number 2, June 1997

Feature Article

LIMB LENGTHENING IN THE SKELETAL DYSPLASIAS AND SHORT STATURE CONDITIONS: STATE OF THE ART IN 1997
Deborah F. Stanitski, MD

Reviews & Comments

• A Month-Long Effect From a Single Injection of Microencapsulated Human Growth Hormone  
• A Receptor in Pituitary and Hypothalamus That Functions in Growth Hormone Release
• Growth Hormone Increases Breast Milk Volumes in Mothers of Preterm Infants  
• Growth Hormone Therapy in Silver-Russell Syndrome: 5 Years Experience of the Australian and New Zealand Growth Database (OZGROW)  
• Increased Energy Expenditure in Growing Adolescents With Crohn's Disease  
• Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 and IGF Binding Protein-3 Remain High After GnRH Analogue Therapy in Girls With Central Precocious Puberty  
• Intrauterine Growth Retardation and Postnatal Growth Failure Associated With Deletion of IGF-1
• Newborn Screening Fact Sheets
• Over Expression of an Osteogenic Morphogen in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva  
• Shortened and Diminished Pubertal Growth in Boys and Girls Treated for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• The New Genomics: Global Views of Biology  

Number 1, March 1997

Feature Article

THE NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF STRESS: ITS RELATION TO THE HORMONAL MILIEU, GROWTH, AND DEVELOPMENT
George P. Chrousos, MD

Reviews & Comments

• A New Stress-Related Syndrome of Growth Failure and Hyperphagia in Children, Associated With Reversibility of Growth-Hormone Insufficiency  
• A Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial of Growth Hormone (GH) Treatment in Prepubertal Children After Renal Transplant  
• Constitutively Activated Receptors for Parathyroid Hormone and Parathyroid Hormone-Related Peptide in Jansen's Metaphyseal Chondrodysplasia  
• Growth Hormone (GH) Replacement in Healthy Older Men Improves Body Composition But Not Functional Ability  
• Holoprosencephaly and Sonic Hedgehog
• Serum Leptin in Children With Obesity: Relationship to Gender and Development

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