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• n  hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity

• Current treatment consists of monthly injections of a powerful gonadotropin-blocking drug called Lupron.
• Pergonal, a hormonal extract from the urine of postmenopausal women, primes the ovaries so that another hormone human chorionic gonadotropin or HCGcan ensure the release of .
• The fans will be wielding some nasty signs: Ramirez reportedly may claim that he took a banned drug called human chorionic gonadotropin to cure erectile dysfunction (the female .

• gonadotrophin
• gonadotropic hormone
• gonadotrophic hormone

News & Articles

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• eHCGInjections Announces New Article; Doctor Contradicts FDA Take on HCG Injections for Weight Loss
  LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The website HCG Injections ( ehcginjections.com ) aims to educate people on the safe use of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) injections as part of a ...
  July 18, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Arg-Phe-amide-related peptides influence gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons
  ( Neural Regeneration Research ) During the last decade, our understanding of this hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis has quickly expanded. Two novel hypothalamic Arg-Phe-amide-related peptides, kisspeptin and gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone, may be important regulators of the reproductive axis.
  July 17, 2013 - EurekAlert!