This important work advances our understanding of the role of kisspeptin neurons in regulating the luteinizing hormone (LH) surge in females. The evidence demonstrating increased neuronal activity in ...

Reports suggest that at least 25% of ovarian disorders are due to dysfunction of the brain mechanism in the hypothalamus that controls the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), which is a molecule ...

An Inserm team at the Lille Neuroscience & Cognition laboratory (Inserm/Université de Lille, Lille University Hospital) has joined forces with its counterparts at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) ...

Mayuko Nagae, Yoshihisa Uenoyama, Saki Okamoto, Hitomi Tsuchida, Kana Ikegami, Teppei Goto, Sutisa Majarune, Sho Nakamura, Makoto Sanbo, Masumi Hirabayashi, Kenta Kobayashi, Naoko Inoue, Hiroko ...

Gonadotropins are any hormones that are released from the anterior pituitary to stimulate the gonads, or sex glands, to carry out their reproductive functions. The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH ...

One in 800 children are born with Down syndrome, the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. The vast majority of cases are caused by having three copies of chromosome 21 instead of two.

Patients with Down syndrome face a lifetime of sensory, reproductive and intellectual disabilities that worsen with age. But despite affecting as many as 1 in 700 births, according to the Centers for ...

Could replenishing a sex hormone improve cognition in Down’s syndrome? If given the right way, gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) can do just that, according to researchers led by Vincent Prevot ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...