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Query: UMLS:C0848255 (female puberty)
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The change of fundamental voice frequency in continuous speech in female puberty was analysed in 47 girls by comparison of 2000 consecutive electroglottographic cycles in a reading situation. The results were compared with serum concentrations of androgens (dihydroepiandrosterone, delta-4-androstenedione, testosterone, and sex hormone binding globulin), oestrogens (oestradiol, oestrone, and oestronesulphate), and somatic puberty (weight, height, mamma stages, and pubic hair stages). Fundamental frequency in continuous speech was related only to oestrone r = -0.34, (P less than 0.05). But the tone range in continuous speech and the lowest tone in the phonetogram were found to be significantly correlated with many of the pubertal and hormone parameters. All these correlations could be explained by a common age-dependency. By multiple regression analysis different sets of variables for prediction of speaking fundamental frequency were found before and after menarche.
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PMID:Fundamental voice frequency in female puberty measured with electroglottography during continuous speech as a secondary sex characteristic. A comparison between voice, pubertal stages, oestrogens and androgens. 226 90

The function that aromatizable androgens may have in female puberty is unclear. The present experiments were undertaken to examine, using a quantitative approach, the role that physiological levels of these androgens may play in determining the timing of vaginal opening and first ovulation in female rats. Serum androstenedione (delta 4) levels increased markedly between Postnatal Days 4 and 8, remained elevated through Day 16, and declined thereafter to remain at about 100 pg/ml throughout juvenile development (Days 20-32). Serum testosterone (T) also increased, though less prominently after Postnatal Day 4. Maximal values were found at Day 12 (about 150 pg/ml); thereafter, T levels decreased to intermediate values (about 100 pg/ml), which were maintained during juvenile days. Serum dehydroepiandrosterone (DHA) remained undetectable throughout prepubertal development. At puberty, serum delta 4 increased 2.5-fold, but only at the time of the preovulatory luteinizing hormone (LH) surge. In contrast, T levels increased significantly 2-fold on the early proestrous-2 phase of puberty, 3.5-fold on the morning of first proestrus, and 9-fold at the time of the LH surge. Serum DHA remained undetectable. Implantation of Silastic capsules containing T at 2 or 6 mg/ml oil into juvenile 28-day-old rats resulted in serum T levels similar to those found on early proestrous 2 (about 150-180 pg/ml) and at 1300 h of first proestrus (ca. 300-400 pg/ml), respectively. Both treatments induced precocious vaginal opening, but failed to advance first ovulation. About 50% of the T-implanted rats had ambiguous estrous-type vaginal cytology preceding the day of first diestrus, and failed to show corpora lutea at this time.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:A role for aromatizable androgens in female rat puberty. 359 52