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Neurokinin 3 receptor antagonism decreases gonadotropin and testosterone secretion in healthy men.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Dec 2017
Skorupskaite Karolina, George Jyothis T, Veldhuis Johannes D, Millar Robert P, Anderson Richard A
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OBJECTIVE: Patients with mutations of neurokinin B (NKB) and its receptor show hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism, but there is little evidence for the importance of this pathway in reproductive function in normal men, or its functional hierarchy with kisspeptin. DESIGN: An open label study wherein men (n = 6) were administered the NK3R antagonist MLE4901 40 mg orally twice a day for 7 days. Kisspeptin-10 (0.3 μg/kg...
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