Metabolic control of puberty: Roles of l
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Sanchez-Garrido, Miguel A.; Tena-Sempere, Manuel
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Article
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2013
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Reproduction is an energy-demanding function. Accordingly, puberty is metabolically gated, as a means to prevent fertility in conditions of energy insufficiency. In addition, obesity has been shown to impact the timing of puberty and may be among the causes for the earlier trends of pubertal age rep