Volume 14 - Tables of Contents

Number 3, October 1998

Feature Article

GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY IN ADULTS
Peter H. Sönksen, MD, FRCP and Andrew J. Weissberger, MD, FRACP

Reviews & Comments

• Births After Intracytoplasmic Injection of Sperm Obtained by Testicular Extraction From Men With Nonmosaic Klinefelter's Syndrome  
• Efficacy and Safety of Growth Hormone Treatment in Children With Prior Craniopharyngioma: An Analysis of the Pharmacia and Upjohn International Growth Database (KIGS) From 1988 to 1996  
• Familial Hyperinsulinism Caused by an Activating Glucokinase Mutation  
• Frequency of Inherited Bleeding Disorders in Women With Menorrhagia
• Further Reports of Leptin Abnormalities in Humans  
• Leptin Plasma Levels in Healthy Spanish Children and Adolescents, Children With Obesity, and Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
• The APECED Gene and Its Products and Polyglandular Autoimmune Disease I  
• Metabolic Effects of Long-Term Growth Hormone Treatment in Prepubertal Children With Chronic Renal Failure After Kidney Transplantation  
• Mutations in PROP1 Cause Familial Combined Pituitary Hormone Deficiency  
• Of Fingers, Toes, and Penises
• Randomized Trial of Growth Hormone in Short Normal Girls  
• Orexins and Orexin Receptors: A Family of Hypothalamic Neuropeptides and G Protein-Coupled Receptors That Regulate Feeding Behavior  
• Partial Hormone Resistance in Mice With Disruption of the Steroid Receptor Coactivator (SRC-1) Gene  
• Screening for Retinopathy in the Pediatric Patient With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus    

Number 2, June 1998

Feature Articles

• MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY OF LEPTIN AND ITS RECEPTOR
  This brief review summarizes our current understanding of the molecular physiology of leptin and its receptor.
  Yiying Zhang, PhD

• Insulin, IGF-2 and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Recently Implicated Genetic Loci
  Cheri L. Deal, PhD, MD and Constantin Polychronakos, MD

Reviews & Comments

• A Dominant-Negative Mutation of the Growth Hormone Receptor Causes Familial Short Stature  
• Androgen Insensitivity With Mental Retardation: A Contiguous Gene Syndrome?  
• Congenital Leptin Deficiency Is Associated With Severe Early-Onset Obesity in Humans  
• Evidence From Turner's Syndrome of an Imprinted X-Linked Locus Affecting Cognitive Function  
• Growth Pattern During the First 36 Months of Life in Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (21 Hydroxylase Deficiency)  
• Growth, Genetics, and Cancer  Dissociation of Systemic GH-IGF-l Axis From a Genetic Basis for Short Stature in African Pygmies  
• Nonadipose Tissue Production of Leptin: Leptin as a Novel Placenta-Derived Hormone in Humans  
• Opitz Syndrome Gene Found  
• Relationship Between Serum Leptin Concentration and Fetal Growth  

Number 1, April 1998

Feature Articles

• THE SPECTRUM OF USES FOR GROWTH HORMONE IN CHILDREN .
  Ron G. Rosenfeld, MD

• How Safe and Effective Is Human Growth Hormone at Pharmacologic Dosing?
  Arnold Slyper, MD

Reviews & Comments

• Changes in Bone Mineral Density, Body Composition, and Lipid Metabolism During Growth Hormone (GH) Treatment in Children With GH Deficiency
• Considerations Related to the Use of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone in Children
• Gene Therapy: Promises, Problems, and Prospects
• Growth Hormone Therapy in Prepubertal Children With Noonan Syndrome: First Year Growth Response and Comparison With Turner Syndrome
• Increased Height in Patients With Medulloblastoma
• Prenatal Diagnosis From Fetal Cells in Maternal Circulation  
• Short Stature and Growth Hormone Therapy: A National Study of Physician Recommendation Patterns
• The Duration of Puberty in Girls Is Related to the Timing of Its Onset

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