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Mutations in the human gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor: insights into receptor biology and function.
Seminars in reproductive medicine - 1 Sept 2007
Bédécarrats Grégoy Y, Kaiser Ursula B
Abstract excerpt
Pulsatile hypothalamic release of GnRH tightly controls reproduction by activating a specific cell membrane receptor (GnRHR) on the surface of pituitary gonadotrophs to stimulate luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone secretion. During the last 10 years, 21 loss-of-function GNRHR mutations have been identified in patients with idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Although most patients with...
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