Bio-and immunoactive luteinizing hormone responses to low doses of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH): dose-response curves in GnRH-deficient men

DI SPRATT, JS FINKELSTEIN… - The Journal of …, 1986 - academic.oup.com
Previous investigations of the effects of GnRH on pituitary LH responses in normal men
required pharmacological doses of GnRH to avoid the confounding effects of endogenous …

Effects of increasing the frequency of low doses of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) on gonadotropin secretion in GnRH-deficient men

DI SPRATT, JS FINKELSTEIN… - The Journal of …, 1987 - academic.oup.com
The effects of increasing the frequency of pulsatile GnRH administration on LH and FSH
responsiveness were studied in five GnRH-deficient men who had achieved normal sex …

Pituitary luteinizing hormone responses to intravenous and subcutaneous administration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in men

DI SPRATT, WF CROWLEY JR… - The Journal of …, 1985 - academic.oup.com
Although differences in plasma GnRH concentrations have been identified after iv and sc
injection of this peptide, differences in pituitary LH responses to iv and sc GnRH have not …

The Nature of the Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Stimulus-Luteinizing Hormone Secretory Response of Human Gonadotrophs In Vivo

JD Veldhuis, LSL O'dea… - The Journal of Clinical …, 1989 - academic.oup.com
To examine the stimulus-secretion response of human pituitary gonadotrophs in vivo, we
applied a new multiple parameter deconvolution technique to analyze (1) exogenous GnRH …

Preferential release of bioactive luteinizing hormone in response to endogenous and low dose exogenous gonadotropin-releasing hormone pulses in man

JD Veldhuis, ML Johnson… - The Journal of Clinical …, 1987 - academic.oup.com
We used the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay to assess biological LH activity
secreted in response to endogenous and low dose exogenous GnRH pulses in normal men …

Hormonal effects of single gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist doses in men

F Jockenhövel, S Bhasin, BS Steiner… - The Journal of …, 1988 - academic.oup.com
To assess its gonadotropin-inhibiting potency in man, three different doses of a GnRH
antagonist ([Ac-D2-Nal1, d4-Cl-Phe2, d3-Pal3, Arg5, d4-p-methoxybenzoyl-2-amino butyric …

Pulsatile gonadotropin secretion after discontinuation of long term gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) administration in a subset of GnRH-deficient men

JS FINKELSTEIN, DI SPRATT… - The Journal of …, 1989 - academic.oup.com
Normal pituitary and gonadal function can be maintained with long term pulsatile GnRH
administration in men with idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH), and both …

Pituitary desensitization and the regulation of pituitary gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptors following chronic administration of a superactive GnRH …

D Heber, R Dodson, C Stoskopf, M Peterson… - Life Sciences, 1982 - Elsevier
We recently demonstrated that chronic daily administration of a superactive GnRH analog to
intact rats resulted in an initial stimulation of serum LH levels with a subsequent return of LH …

Graded inhibition of pulsatile luteinizing hormone secretion by a selective gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)-receptor antagonist in healthy men: evidence that …

PY Takahashi, PY Liu, PD Roebuck… - The Journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Healthy older men manifest concomitant hypoandrogenemia and attenuation of LH pulse
size. Because exogenous GnRH remains effective, a plausible intuition is that aging reduces …

Repetitive infusion of gonadotropin-releasing hormone distinguishes hypothalamic from pituitary hypogonadism

PJ SNYDER, RS RUDENSTEIN… - The Journal of …, 1979 - academic.oup.com
Patients who have severe hypogonadotropic hypogonadism caused by presumed
hypothalamic disease often have a subnormal LH response to a bolus dose of …