ESPE Abstracts

Puberty is under the precise control of sophisticated regulatory networks, which integrate a large number of endogenous and environmental signals, including metabolic and nutritional cues. Thus, puberty onset is tightly bound to the state of body energy reserves, and deregulation of energy/metabolic homeostasis is often associated with alterations in the timing of puberty. However, despite recent progress in the field, our knowledge of the specific signals and central molecula...