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Human GnRH deficiency: a unique disease model to unravel the ontogeny of GnRH neurons.
Neuroendocrinology - 1 Jan 2010
Balasubramanian Ravikumar, Dwyer Andrew, Seminara Stephanie B, Pitteloud Nelly, Kaiser Ursula B, Crowley William F
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary survival of a species is largely a function of its reproductive fitness. In mammals, a sparsely populated and widely dispersed network of hypothalamic neurons, the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons, serve as the pilot light of reproduction via coordinated secretion of GnRH. Since it first description, human GnRH deficiency has been recognized both clinically and genetically as a...
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