Sex steroid and growth hormone supplementation to enhance performance in adolescent athletesA D Rogol
Department of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 12:382-7. 2000
..Thus, very few data are available in non-growth hormone-deficient adolescents. The discussion of these agents ends with issues of fairness, ethics, and the message we attempt to project to our teenagers, whether athletes or not...
- Growth and pubertal development in children and adolescents: effects of diet and physical activity
A D Rogol
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center Charlottesville, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 72:521S-8S. 2000
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- Alterations in growth and body composition during puberty. I. Comparing multicompartment body composition models
J N Roemmich
Division of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
J Appl Physiol 83:927-35. 1997
..091 g/ml) with maturation. All of the models reduced the %BF overprediction of the Siri 2C model, but only the 4C and 3C-H2O models should be used as criterion methods for body composition validation in children and adolescents...
- Pubertal alterations in growth and body composition. V. Energy expenditure, adiposity, and fat distribution
J N Roemmich
Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 279:E1426-36. 2000
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- Pubertal alterations in growth and body composition. VI. Pubertal insulin resistance: relation to adiposity, body fat distribution and hormone release
J N Roemmich
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 26:701-9. 2002
..To investigate the independent influence of alterations in fat mass, body fat distribution and hormone release on pubertal increases in fasting serum insulin concentrations and on insulin resistance assessed by the homeostasis model (HOMA)...
- Growth, body composition and hormonal axes in children and adolescents
A D Rogol
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
J Endocrinol Invest 26:855-60. 2003
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- Alterations in body composition and fat distribution in growth hormone-deficient prepubertal children during growth hormone therapy
J N Roemmich
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Metabolism 50:537-47. 2001
..GH therapy has site-specific effects on reducing abdominal adiposity...
- Accelerated escape from GH autonegative feedback in midpuberty in males: evidence for time-delimited GH-induced somatostatinergic outflow in adolescent boys
E Richmond
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 87:3837-44. 2002
..This novel tripartite mechanism could engender recurrent high-amplitude GH secretory bursts that mark sex hormone-dependent activation of the human somatotropic axis...
- Longitudinal changes in growth hormone secretory process irregularity assessed transpubertally in healthy boys
S M Pincus
Department of Internal Medicine, General Clinical Research Center, Center for Biomathematical Technology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 279:E417-24. 2000
..In addition to clinical utility, there may be added experimental merit in knowing that GH dynamics typically predict accelerated linear growth in 4-8 mo...
- Food availability affects neural estrogen receptor immunoreactivity in prepubertal mice
J N Roemmich
Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22903, USA
Endocrinology 138:5366-73. 1997
..In female mice, underfeeding may stall puberty by reducing the number of ER-ir cells in brain areas important for signal transmission of GnRH release...
- The insulin-like growth factor system in kidney diseases
E J Richmond
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Nephron 89:5-9. 2001
..In the nephritic syndrome, a similar mechanism may be active, in that the binding proteins and their fragments may inhibit IGF-I action...
