α MELANOCYTE STIMULATING HORMONE INDUCES GONADOTROPIN RELEASE
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 52 (1) , 159-161
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-52-1-159
Abstract
Synthetic .alpha.-melanocyte stimulating hormone [.alpha.-melanotropin] given as a 2.5 mg i.v. bolus induced an unequivocal rise in lutropin and follitropin in male subjects, but not in female subjects, during the low estrogen phase of the cycle.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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