Small as Fetus and Short as Child: From Endogenous to Exogenous Growth Hormone¹

Growth in utero, blood pressure in childhood and adult life, and mortality from cardiovascular disease.

1989 • 2,337 citations

Obesity in Young Men after Famine Exposure in Utero and Early Infancy

1976 • 1,618 citations

Intrauterine Growth Retardation and Postnatal Growth Failure Associated with Deletion of the Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Gene

1996 • 1,094 citations

Critical periods in childhood for the development of obesity

1994 • 1,077 citations

Thinness at birth and insulin resistance in adult life

1994 • 716 citations

Growth in Full- Term Small-for-Gestational-Age Infants: From Birth to Final Height

1995 • 694 citations

Children Born Small for Gestational Age: Do They Catch Up?

1995 • 493 citations

Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins in the Human Fetus. Relationships with Growth in Normal Subjects and in Subjects with Intrauterine Growth Retardation

1991 • 415 citations

THE SMALL-FOR-DATE INFANT. II. NEUROLOGICAL AND INTELLECTUAL SEQUELAE

1972 • 391 citations

Effect of Human Growth Hormone Treatment for 1 to 7 Years on Growth of 100 Children, with Growth Hormone Deficiency, Low Birthweight, Inherited Smallness, Turner's Syndrome, and Other Complaints

1971 • 389 citations

Insulin-like growth factors and their binding proteins in the term and preterm human fetus and neonate with normal and extremes of intrauterine growth.

1995 • 361 citations

The Physiology of Growth Hormones (GHs) in Pregnant Women and Partial Characterization of the Placental GH Variant*

1988 • 332 citations

THE SMALL-FOR-DATE INFANT I. LATER GROWTH PATTERNS

1972 • 272 citations

Anterior pituitary function during critical illness and dopamine treatment

1996 • 267 citations

Growth and Development of Full-Term Nonasphyxiated Small-for-Gestational-Age Newborns: Follow-up Through Adolescence

1983 • 239 citations

Function of the Homeodomain Protein GHF1 in Pituitary Cell Proliferation

1991 • 222 citations

The Ontogenesis of Human Fetal Hormones

1972 • 217 citations

Secretion and Metabolism of Growth Hormone in Premature and Full-Term Infants1

1965 • 211 citations

Anterior pituitary development: Short tales from dwarf mice

1992 • 208 citations

The Natural History of the Silver-Russell Syndrome: A Longitudinal Study of Thirty-nine Cases

1975 • 183 citations

Growth Factors and Intrauterine Growth Retardation. II. Serum Growth Hormone, Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF) I, and IGF-Binding Protein 3 Levels in Children with Intrauterine Growth Retar Age1

1996 • 168 citations

Congenital idiopathic growth hormone deficiency associated with prenatal and early postnatal growth failure

1992 • 167 citations

Endogenous and stimulated GH secretion, urinary GH excretion, and plasma IGF‐I and IGF‐II levels in prepubertal children with short stature after intrauterine growth retardation*

1994 • 166 citations

Spontaneous 24-hour growth hormone profiles in prepubertal small for gestational age children.

1995 • 139 citations

The prenatal role of thyroid hormone evidenced by fetomaternal Pit-1 deficiency.

1995 • 132 citations

Adrenarche and Fetal Growth

1997 • 122 citations

The fetal somatotropic axis during long term maternal undernutrition in sheep: evidence for nutritional regulation in utero.

1995 • 118 citations

Growth curves for Laron syndrome.

1993 • 118 citations

A Family of POU-Domain and Pit-1 Tissue-Specific Transcription Factors in Pituitary and Neuroendocrine Development

1990 • 115 citations

High-dose growth hormone treatment of short children born small for gestational age.

1996 • 107 citations

Changes in serum insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and IGF-binding protein-3 levels during growth hormone treatment in prepubertal short children born small for gestational age.

1996 • 105 citations

Pulsatile and Sexually Dimorphic Secretion of Luteinizing Hormone in the Human Infant on the Day of Birth

1992 • 102 citations

FUNCTIONAL HYPERSOMATOTROPISM IN SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE (SGA) NEWBORN INFANTS

1989 • 102 citations

Localization of the growth hormone receptor, identified by immunocytochemistry, in second trimester human fetal tissues and in placenta throughout gestation.

1992 • 98 citations

Growth hormone secretion in critical illness: effect of dopamine.

1994 • 97 citations

Growth of infants with neonatal growth hormone deficiency.

1992 • 90 citations

Dose-dependent catch-up growth after 2 years of growth hormone treatment in intrauterine growth-retarded children. Belgian and French Pediatric Clinics and Sanofi-Choay (France).

1994 • 88 citations

Hormone Ontogeny in the Ovine Fetus. I. Circulating Growth Hormone in Mid and Late Gestation**

1979 • 85 citations

Does growth hormone treatment improve final height attainment of children with intrauterine growth retardation?

1991 • 80 citations

Adolescent growth and pubertal progression in the Silver-Russell syndrome.

1988 • 73 citations

Dopamine Inhibits Growth Hormone and Prolactin Secretion in the Human Newborn

1993 • 72 citations

Insulin Responses During Catch-up Growth of Infants Who Were Small for Gestational Age

1976 • 69 citations

Perinatal Growth Hormone (GH) Physiology: Effect of GH-Releasing Factor on Maternal and Fetal Secretion of Pituitary and Placental GH*

1990 • 69 citations

Follow-Up of Three Years of Treatment with Growth Hormone and of One Post-Treatment Year, in Children with Severe Growth Retardation of Intrauterine Onset

1996 • 64 citations

Visual Demonstration of Growth Hormone Receptors on Human Growth Plate Chondrocytes*

1990 • 62 citations

Sustained Effect of Human Growth Hormone Therapy on Children With Intrauterine Growth Retardation

1979 • 62 citations

Physiological Growth Hormone Secretion in Children with Short Stature and Intra-Uterine Growth Retardation

1988 • 61 citations

Hormone Ontogeny in the Ovine Fetus

1990 • 60 citations

Hypersomatotropism in the Dysmature Infant at Term and Preterm Birth

1990 • 59 citations

Acute and Long-Term Responses to hGH in Children with Idiopathic Small-for-Dates Dwarfism

1972 • 56 citations

Serum Growth Hormone-Binding Proteins in the Human Fetus and Infant

1992 • 53 citations

Properties of growth hormone and prolactin hypersecretion by the human infant on the day of birth.

1993 • 50 citations

Growth hormone (GH) receptors are expressed on human fetal mesenchymal tissues--identification of messenger ribonucleic acid and GH-binding protein.

1993 • 50 citations

Pulsatile growth hormone secretion in the ovine fetus and neonatal lamb

1986 • 48 citations

Lipid deposition after hypophysectomy and growth hormone treatment in the sheep fetus.

1986 • 38 citations

STUDIES ON THE EFFECTS OF HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE IN PREMATURE INFANTS*

1961 • 33 citations

HORMONE ONTOGENY IN THE OVINE FETUS: XXI. THE EFFECT OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-I ON PLASMA FETAL GROWTH HORMONE, INSULIN AND GLUCOSE CONCENTRATIONS

1988 • 33 citations

Spontaneous growth hormone release in term infants: changes during the first four days of life.

1993 • 33 citations

Auxological, clinical and neuroradiological findings in infants with early onset growth hormone deficiency

1995 • 31 citations

GROWTH HORMONE RESPONSE TO FEEDING IN TERM AND PRETERM NEONATES

1983 • 29 citations

Antagonism by growth hormone of insulin action in fetal sheep

1985 • 24 citations

Hormone Ontogeny in the Ovine Fetus and Neonate. XXII. The Effect of Somatostatin on the Growth Hormone (GH) Response to GH-Releasing Factor*

1989 • 24 citations

Fetal hypopituitarism: perinatal endocrine and morphological studies in two cases

1994 • 20 citations

Response to growth hormone therapy in patients with growth hormone deficiency who at birth were small or appropriate in size for gestational age

1995 • 19 citations

Hormone Ontogeny in the Ovine Fetus and Neonatal Lamb. XX. Effect of Age, Breeding Season, and Twinning on the Growth Hormone (GH) Response to GH-Releasing Factor: Evidence for a Homeostatic Role of Fetal GH*

1989 • 18 citations

The foetal pituitary, postmaturity and breech presentation

1995 • 11 citations

Growth Hormone Response to a Bolus Injection of 1-44 Growth-Hormone-Releasing Hormone in Very Short Children with Intrauterine Onset of Growth Failure

1990 • 10 citations

Growth hormone secretion in the fetal sheep following stereotaxic electrolytic lesioning of the fetal hypothalamus.

1985 • 8 citations

Cardiac status of patients with phenylketomuria

1994 • 3 citations