ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2014
Opposite influence of light and blindness on pituitary-gonadal function.
Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The effect of light on follicular development in laying hens.Animal bioscience · 2021Article
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- Effect of a health education program on puberty knowledge among visually impaired female adolescent students.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2021Article
- Endocrine rhythms and sport: it is time to take time into account.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2019Review
- How much does obesity affect the male reproductive function?International journal of obesity supplements · 2019Review
- Modulators of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis for the control of spermatogenesis and sperm quality in vertebrates.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2014Article
- Fluctuations in Seminal Quality throughout the Year: How do Temperature, Humidity and Atmospheric Pressure Impact on Human Sperm Quality?Journal of human reproductive sciencesArticle
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Abstract
Some environmental factors may influence the pituitary-gonadal function. Among these, light plays an important role in animals and in humans. The effect of light on the endocrine system is mediated by the pineal gland, through the modulation of melatonin secretion. In fact, melatonin secretion is stimulated by darkness and suppressed by light, thus its circadian rhythm peaks at night. Light plays a favorable action on the hypothalamic-pituitary axis likely inhibiting melatonin secretion, while the exogenous melatonin administration does not seem to impair the hormonal secretions of this axis. The basal and rhythmic pituitary-gonadal hormone secretions are regulated by a central clock gene and some independent clock genes in the peripheral tissues. Light is able to induce the expression of some of these genes, thus playing an important role in regulating the hormonal secretions of pituitary-gonadal axis and the sexual and reproductive function in animals and humans. The lack of light stimulus in blind subjects induces increase in plasma melatonin concentrations with a free-running rhythm of secretion, which impairs the hormonal secretions of pituitary-gonadal axis, causing disorders of reproductive processes in both sexes.
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