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  • Public health campaigns promoting healthy diets and physical activity and reducing exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals should be developed, particularly in urban areas, and local exposure to such chemicals and obesity-related factors in Mosul should be further studied given their potential role in idiopathic central precocious puberty. [29] Adherence among boys with precocious puberty remains poorly studied in the literature, and the pronounced non- adherence observed in this study may reflect stigma, lower perceived need for treatment, or diagnostic delay, warranting further targeted investigation given the small male sample size in this study.

    CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY ATTENDING ENDOCRINE UNITS IN MOSUL CITY · 2026 · DOI

  • Expression of dopaminergic markers was sparse at birth but rose substantially after the first week, followed by the onset of median eminence innervation by TIDA axons.

    Stable Network Homeostasis during Multi-Level Postnatal Maturation of the Mouse Tuberoinfundibular Dopamine-Prolactin Axis · 2026 · DOI

  • While Prl levels surge during early mouse postnatal life, it remains unclear whether the TIDA system is fully developed at birth or undergoes functional maturation.

    Stable Network Homeostasis during Multi-Level Postnatal Maturation of the Mouse Tuberoinfundibular Dopamine-Prolactin Axis · 2026 · DOI

  • While GnRH agonists have long been used clinically, the developmental characterization of HPG axis suppression during puberty remains incompletely understood.

    Sustained GnRH Agonism Alters Endocrine Dynamics and Pubertal Progression in Juvenile Rats · 2026 · DOI

  • 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 Puberty is a major developmental transition during which neuroendocrine systems activate e h and reorganize with lasting consequences for growth, brain development, behavior, and health (37, 38), yet progress in understanding the neuroendocrine architecture underlying this transit ion has been limited by the lack of scalable in vivo measures of the pituitary, a central regulator of pubertal development.

    Longitudinal MRI reveals adolescent pituitary growth patterns linked to puberty and environmental exposures · 2026 · DOI

  • This study was conducted among a specific group of participants, namely fifth-grade elementary school students in Palembang, which may limit the generalizability of the findings. Additionally, the study relied on subjective user evaluations, which may be influenced by individual perceptions and experiences.

    User Experience Evaluation of a Gamified Puberty Education Application Among Elementary School Students: A UEQ-Based Study · 2026 · DOI

  • Though estrogen and its metabolites have been implicated in multiple malignancies, little is known about the impact of HRT on post-menopausal women with Kallmann syndrome.

    Oncological outcomes in post-menopausal women with Kallmann syndrome: A propensity-matched study from the Global Federated Health Network. · 2026 · DOI

  • One methodological limitation of the present study is the absence of colchicine pretreatment, which may have reduced the detectability of peptide-immunoreactive neuronal cell bodies (CART, NPY, and ENK). Colchicine is known to enhance peptide accumulation in neuronal somata by blocking axonal transport. Consequently, the number of immunoreactive perikarya in the preoptic area may have been underestimated. This limitation does not apply to tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), which is synthesized locally in neuronal cytoplasm and does not require blockade of axonal transport for effective detection. ARTICLE IN PRESS ARTICLE IN PRESS Ethical approval. This study is reported in accordance with ARRIVE guidelines. Author Contributions: Conceptualization, K.B.-N.; data curation, K.B.-N.; formal analysis, K.B.-N.; funding acquisition, K.B.-N., A. K; investigation, K.B.-N.; methodology, K.B.-N., D.K., A.K.; project administration, K.B.-N.; supervision, K.B.-N., D.K., A.C.W.H, A.K.; writing original draft, K.B.-N.; writing, review and editing, K.B.-N., D.K., A.C.W.H, A.K. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. Funding: This research was funded by the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, statutory grant number 12.610.001-300. Funded by the Minister of Science under „the Regional Initiative of Excellence Program” Data Availability Statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ARTICLE IN PRESS ARTICLE IN PRESS References: 1. Bleier, R. Hypothalamus of the Guinea Pig: A Cytoarchitectonic Atlas. (Univ of Wisconsin Pr, Madison, Wis, 1984). 2. Bogus-Nowakowska, K. et al. A morphometric study of the preoptic area of the guinea pig. Folia Morphol. 69, 15–23 (2010). 3. Bleier, R., Byne, W. & Siggelkow, I. Cytoarchitectonic sexual dimorphisms of the medial preoptic and anterior hypothalamic areas in guinea pig, rat, hamster, and mouse. J. Comp. Neurol. 212, 118– 130 (1982). 4. Tsuneoka, Y. et al. Functional, anatomical, and neurochemical differentiation of medial preoptic area subregions in relation to maternal behavior in the mouse. J. Comp. Neurol. 521, 1633–1663 (2013). 5. Dominguez, J. M. & Hull, E. M. Dopamine, the medial preoptic area, and male sexual behavior. Physiol. Behav. 86, 356–368 (2005). 6. Knoll, J. G., Wolfe, C. A. & Tobet, S. A. Estrogen modulates neuronal movements within the developing preoptic area-anterior hypothalamus. Eur. J. Neurosci. 26, 1091–1099 (2007). 7. Simerly, R. B., McCall, L. D. & Watson, S. J. Distribution of opioid peptides in the preoptic region: immunohistochemical evidence for a steroid-sensitive enkephalin sexual dimorphism. J.

    Sex differences in the expression of GnRH regulators in the preoptic area of guinea pigs · 2026 · DOI

  • study has should be acknowledged. First, the sample size, while sufficient for a requires discovery and validation expansion to confirm large-scale, multi-center cohorts in generalizability across different ethnicities. Second, regarding the mechanistic insights, we acknowledge that this study primarily focused on biomarker discovery and diagnostic model construction.

    A serum exosomal four-miRNA signature for the diagnosis of central precocious puberty: a discovery and validation study · 2026 · DOI

  • In females (including women and people assigned female at birth), ADHD is under-recognized, and knowledge about the relationship between ADHD symptoms and sex hormones is lacking.

    ADHD and Sex Hormones in Females: A Systematic Review · 2025 · DOI

  • In SP-CPP, pubertal signs and hormone levels increase gradually, whereas RP-CPP may exhibit an aggressive course, where monitoring alone is insufficient and early diagnosis and treatment are crucial for preserving final height.

    Comparative Analysis Of Girls With Slowly Progressive Central Precocious Puberty Vs. Rapidly Progressive Central Precocious Puberty: Single-Center Experience · 2025 · DOI

  • In adult animals, melatonin does not have obvious direct effects on pituitary functions, whereas the connections between melatonin release and hypothalamic functions, including GnRH release, are preserved, and are critically important in synchronizing the external photoperiods and reproductive functions through still not well characterized mechanisms.

    Melatonin action in neonatal gonadotrophs · 2004 · DOI

  • There are conflicting reports in the literature as to whether the primary neuroendocrine defect is of hypothalamic GnRH secretion, as with most causes of IHH, or of pituitary resistance to GnRH action.

    Connecting Classrooms, Computers, and Communities. · 1996 · DOI

  • Finally, we may say, further studies of the effects of castration should be made by using insight and reasoning problems, which probably do not depend upon the same intellectual functions in the rat as those tested in the present experiments. That being the case, no generalization from the light discrimination data to other discrimination tasks is warranted at the present time.

    The Effect of Castration at Various Ages Upon the Learning Ability of Male Albino Rats: II. Relearning After an Interval of One Year · 1936 · DOI

  • Deardorff J, Hoyt LT, Carter R, Shirtcliff EA (2019) Next steps in puberty research: broadening the lens toward understudied popu- lations.

    How changes in pubertal status and chronological age shape individual depressive symptoms by sex: testing a pathoplasty model · 2026 · DOI

  • As these latter have been often proposed as candidate biomarkers, they should be validated in sex-balanced cohorts and interpreted with caution, especially in large-scale plasma proteomics studies wherein often only one or a few sampling time points are measured per donor.

    Longitudinal monitoring exposes correlated temporal protein variations in the female plasma proteome · 2026 · DOI

  • This suggests that boys’ pubertal development may be more sensitive to family structure than previously assumed and should be investigated further with better measures of early pubertal milestones in boys.

    Timing matters: a prospective investigation of father absence and pubertal timing in girls and boys · 2026 · DOI

  • The changes responsible for the entity known as dysphoria premenstrualis remain unknown but may be caused by some of the previously mentioned mechanisms along with an increase in acid reflux.

    The Effect of Hormones on the Voice · 2013

  • Almost all panelists concluded, on the basis of few studies and reliability issues of some male puberty markers, that current data for boys are insufficient to evaluate secular trends in male pubertal development.

    Examination of US Puberty-Timing Data from 1940 to 1994 for Secular Trends: Panel Findings · 2008 · DOI

  • The assay is suitable for measurements of rat relaxin in biological fluids, thus making the assay a valuable tool for further studies on the physiology of relaxin.

    Book Review (reviewing Theresa M. Beiner, Gender Myths v. Working Realities: Using Social Science to reformulate Sexual Harassment Law (2005)) · 2005

  • These implications have not been tested. His timidity from wildness and savageness by means of the F 1 results were inconsistent for females being somewhat more timid than the F 1 males while the F 2 females were less timid than the F 2 males.

    Sex Differences in Timidity in Normal and Gonadectomized Rats · 1941 · DOI

  • While I am inclined to believe that unresolved, unassimilated passivity is in large measure responsible for these abnormalities of development, there exists also a primitive activity whose nature and possible pathogenic role has not yet been studied.

    The Preœdipal Phase of the Libido Development · 1940 · DOI

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