New human reproductive hormone could lead to novel contraceptives
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 13:28
in Biology & Nature
Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening the door to development of a new class of contraceptive and possible treatments for cancer or other diseases. The hormone, gonadotropin inhibitory hormone, puts a brake on the reproductive system and on release of gonadotropin releasing hormone.
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