Summary: | The outcome of an international conference held in Stresa, Italy. The contributions provide an overview of recent developments in endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, and neurobiology of puberty in the human being and in a wide variety of animal models. In addition, metabolic and nutritional factors that affect puberty, behavioral changes associated with sexual maturation, and the pathophysiology of disorders of human puberty are considered. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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