Minipuberty: Looking Back to Understand Moving Forward

• Main Authors: Laura Lucaccioni (Author), Viola Trevisani (Author), Alessandra Boncompagni (Author), Lucia Marrozzini (Author), Alberto Berardi (Author), Lorenzo Iughetti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis activation occurs three times in life: the first is during fetal life, and has a crucial role in sex determination, the second time is during the first postnatal months of life, and the third is with the onset of puberty. These windows of activation recall t...