Chapter-38 Differentiation, Growth, Development and Aging
BOOK TITLE: Medical Biochemistry
Author
1. Aroor AR
ISBN
9788184487282
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11450_38
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2011
Pages
10
Author Affiliations
1.
University of Missouri, School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, USA
Chapter keywords
Sex differentiation,
chromosomal sex,
gonadal sex,
phenotypic sex,
MIS,
growth,
genetic trait,
diet,
hormones,
short stature,
gigantism,
Klinefelter’s syndrome,
GH,
somatomedin C,
dwarfism,
acromegaly,
glucose tolerance test,
puberty,
adrenarche,
pubarche,
thelarche,
menarche,
precocious puberty,
pseudoprecocious puberty,
delayed puberty,
aging,
geriatric medicine,
stochastic theory,
genetic based theory,
apoptosis,
diabetes mellitus,
atherosclerosis,
renal disease,
pituitary disease,
bone disease,
cancer