"When patients ask me, I say, 'Do that for political reasons or because you like the taste, but don't do it because you think it's going to influence puberty.' " For the study, researchers enlisted about 200 pediatricians in 41 states to record information on 4,131 healthy boys ages 6 to 16 during their well-child exams.
To find the genes that influence puberty in girls, researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 180,000 women of European descent, and found more than 100 genetic variations that were associated with the age at which girls experienced their first menstrual period.
Endocrine disrupting chemicals from the environment has been shown to influence puberty timing in animal studies as well as in wildlife observations [51], but little is known about the possible role of these chemicals in the timing and progression of puberty in humans.
Diet did not influence puberty onset or postweaning BW (P≥0.30).
Background: Limited evidence suggests that calcium intake before puberty influences adolescent height growth and the timing of puberty.
The present study was designed to discern if the capability of IGF-1 to release LH and influence the timing of female puberty is influenced by E2.
In order to further support the hypothesis that the action of IGF-1 at the time of puberty is influenced by E2, 24-day-old intact female rats received s.c. injection of sesame oil or 0.1 μg of E2.
The age at which girls reach puberty is influenced by a set of genes that were previously only known to be involved in the development of a fetus before birth, according to a new study.
The process and timing of puberty is influenced by complex interactions between neural and sex hormones.
Single treatment with vitamin D3 or dexamethasone at puberty significantly influenced the glucocorticoid receptors' binding capacity in the thymus (Csaba and Inczefi-Gonda 1999a).
