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Selna L. Kaplan

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American paediatrician.

Biography of Selna L. Kaplan

Selna S. Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, University of California.

Bibliography

  • H.P. Katz, M.M. Grumbach and S.L. Kaplan:
    Diminished Growth Hormone Response to Arginine in the Puerperium.
    Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, 1969, 29: 1414-1419.
  • M.M. Grumbach, B.S. Bin-Abbas, S.L. Kaplan:
    The growth hormone cascade: progress and long-term results of growth hormone treatment in growth hormone deficiency.
    Hormone Research, Basel, 1998, 49 Suppl 2: 41-57.
  • S.L. Kaplan, M.M. Grumach, editors:
    Section XVII. The pituitary. In: Fetal and Neonatal Physiology, 2nd Edition. Polin RA, Fox WW (editors). W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1998: 2395-2431.
  • S.L. Kaplan, M.M. Grumbach, editors:
    Section XIX. The ovary and testis. In: Fetal and Neonatal Physiology, 2nd Edition. Polin RA, Fox WW (editors). W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1998, pp 2469-2504.
  • J. C. Lo, V.M. Schwitzgebel, J.B. Tyrrell, P.A. Fitzgerald, S.L. Kaplan, F.A. Conte, M.M. Grumbach:
    Normal female infants born of mothers with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
    The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1999, 84: 930-936.
  • S.L. Kaplan:
    Hormonal regulation of growth and metabolic effects of growth hormone.
    In: Handbook of Physiology, Section 7. The endocrine system Volume V: Hormonal control of growth, J. Kostyo, editor. Oxford University Press, New York. pp 129-143, 1999.
  • Bassam Bin-Abbas, Felix A. Conte, Melvin M. Grumbach, and Selna L. Kaplan:
    Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and micropenis: Why sex reversal is not indicated. Journal of Pediatrics, 1999, 134 (5): 579-583.
  • M. Bettendorf , F. DeZegher, N. Albers, C.S. Hart, S.L. Kaplan, M.M. Grumbach:
    Acute N-methyl-D,L-aspartate administration stimulates the luteinizing hormone releasing hormone pulse generator in the ovine fetus.
    Hormone Research, Basel, 1999, 51, 1: 25-30.
  • B. Bin-Abbas, M.M. Grumbach, S.L. Kaplan:
    Syndrome of septo-optic dysplasia and hypothalamic hypopituitarism in 44 patients: Long-term follow-up. The Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology.

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