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• Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: an Endocrine Society scientific statement.

  There is growing interest in the possible health threat posed by endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which are substances in our environment, food,…

  Authors: Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Linda C Giudice, Russ Hauser, Gail S Prins, Ana M Soto, R Thomas Zoeller, Andrea C Gore

  Source: Endocrine reviews. 2009 Jun

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• The timing of normal puberty and the age limits of sexual precocity: variations around the world, secular trends, and changes after migration.

  During the past decade, possible advancement in timing of puberty has been reported in the United States. In addition, early pubertal development and …

  Authors: Anne-Simone Parent, Grete Teilmann, Anders Juul, Niels E Skakkebaek, Jorma Toppari, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

  Source: Endocrine reviews. 2003 Oct

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• Oxytocin facilitates female sexual maturation through a glia-to-neuron signaling pathway.

  It has been earlier proposed that oxytocin could play a facilitatory role in the preovulatory LH surge in both rats and humans. We here provide eviden…

  Authors: Anne-Simone Parent, Grégory Rasier, Valérie Matagne, Alejandro Lomniczi, Marie-Christine Lebrethon, Arlette Gérard, Sergio R Ojeda, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

  Source: Endocrinology. 2008 Mar

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• Early maturation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion and sexual precocity after exposure of infant female rats to estradiol or dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.

  An increase in the frequency of pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion in vitro and a reduction in LH response to GnRH in vivo char…

  Authors: Grégory Rasier, Anne-Simone Parent, Arlette Gérard, Marie-Christine Lebrethon, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

  Source: Biology of reproduction. 2007 Oct

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• Factors accounting for perinatal occurrence of pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion in vitro in rats.

  Our aim was to study the inhibitory and facilitatory factors possibly accounting for the undetectable activity of the GnRH pulse generator in late fet…

  Authors: Anne-Simone Parent, Marie-Christine Lebrethon, Arlette Gérard, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

  Source: Biology of reproduction. 2005 Jan

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• Environmental factors and puberty timing: expert panel research needs.

  Serono Symposia International convened an expert panel to review the impact of environmental influences on the regulation of pubertal onset and progre…

  Authors: Germaine M Buck Louis, L Earl Gray, Michele Marcus, Sergio R Ojeda, Ora H Pescovitz, Selma Feldman Witchel, Wolfgang Sippell, David H Abbott, Ana Soto, Rochelle W Tyl,…

  Source: Pediatrics. 2008 Feb

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• Reasoning versus knowledge retention and ascertainment throughout a problem-based learning curriculum.

  CONTEXT: Since 2000, problem-based learning (PBL) seminars have been introduced into the curriculum of medical studies at the University of Liège. We …

  Authors: Anne Collard, Sabine Gelaes, Sophie Vanbelle, Serge Bredart, Jean-Olivier Defraigne, Jacques Boniver, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

  Source: Medical education. 2009 Sep

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• Control of puberty by excitatory amino acid neurotransmitters and its clinical implications.

  Excitatory amino acids, glutamate in particular, have a marked stimulatory effect on the reproductive axis, particularly at puberty. Glutamate, N-meth…

  Authors: Anne-Simone Parent, Valérie Matagne, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

  Source: Endocrine. 2005 Dec

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• Consensus statement on the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs in children.

  OBJECTIVE: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs revolutionized the treatment of central precocious puberty. However, questions remain regarding thei…

  Authors: Jean-Claude Carel, Erica A Eugster, Alan Rogol, Lucia Ghizzoni, Mark R Palmert, ESPE-LWPES GnRH Analogs Consensus Conference Group, Franco Antoniazzi, Sheri Berenbaum, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, George P Chrousos,…

  Source: Pediatrics. 2009 Apr

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• Psychosocial implications of variations in pubertal timing

  The interrelations between pubertal timing and psychosocial maturation are discussed in three perspectives: the consequences of abnormally precocious …

  Authors: Fabienne Glowacz, Françoise Domine, Annick Ledent, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

  Source: La Revue du praticien. 2008 Jun 30

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