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Genetics defects in GNRH1: a paradigm of hypothalamic congenital gonadotropin deficiency.
Brain research - 10 Dec 2010
Bouligand Jérôme, Ghervan Cristina, Trabado Séverine, Brailly-Tabard Sylvie, Guiochon-Mantel Anne, Young Jacques
Abstract excerpt
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is a crucial neurohormone regulating puberty and reproduction in non primate mammals, monkeys and humans. This neuropeptide is released in synchronized pulses from the nerve endings of several hundred GnRH neurons into the hypophyseal portal system to stimulate the biosynthesis and secretion of LH and FSH from pituitary gonadotrophs. These two dimeric glycoprotein hormones in...
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