title: Nutrition and bone growth in pediatrics.
abstract: Children's growth is a hallmark of their normal development and the association between nutrition and linear growth in children is well accepted. Growth requires an adequate supply of many different nutritional factors, some form the "building materials," whereas others play regulatory roles. In this article we describe the growth of the growth plate and discuss the role of nutritional affected hormones on this process. In addition we describe the effect of local regulators and nutritional factors on the growth process and suggest the involvement of new regulatory factors in the translation of nutrition to growth.
authors.affiliation: The Jesse Z. and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, 14 Kaplan Street, Petah Tikva 49202, Israel.
authors.forename: Galia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gat-Yablonski
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yackobovitch-Gavan
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Phillip
mesh_terms: D001846:Bone Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena / Q000502:physiology*; D004703:Endocrine System / Q000502:physiology*; D006132:Growth Plate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans