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ReviewJournal of neuroendocrinology2022

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) measurements in pituitary portal blood: A history.

Suzanne M Moenter, Neil P Evans

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Review in Journal of neuroendocrinology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. GnRH and Cognition.Endocrinology · 2025
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  7. The impact of neonicotinoid pesticides on reproductive health.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2025
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  12. Targeting KNDy neurons to control GnRH pulses.Current opinion in pharmacology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Suzanne M MoenterDepartments of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and the Reproductive Sciences Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9812-0497
Neil P EvansInstitute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
University of Glasgow · GBUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

Central Actions of Estrogens: Effects on GnRH NeuronsR01HD041469 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI Suzanne M MOENTER · 2002 to 2026
$8.8M
Cellular and molecular bases for rhythmic GnRH releaseR37HD034860 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Suzanne M MOENTER · 2017 to 2026
$5.4M
Development of the GnRH neuronal network and effects of prenatal androgen exposureR01HD104345 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MOENTER, SUZANNE M · 2021 to 2025
$2.2M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD041469NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD104345NICHD NIH HHS R37 HD034860
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Much about the neuroendocrine control of reproduction is inferred from changes in the episodic release of luteinizing hormone (LH), as measured in samples of peripheral blood. This, however, assumes that LH precisely mirrors gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) release from the hypothalamus. Because GnRH is not measurable in peripheral blood, characterization of the relationship between these two hormones required the simultaneous measurement of GnRH and LH in pituitary portal and peripheral blood, respectively. Here, we review the history of why and how portal blood collection was developed, the aspects of the true output of the central component of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis that this methodology helped clarify, and conditions under which the pituitary fails to serve as an adequate bioassay for the release pattern of GnRH.

Indexed as

Luteinizing HormonePituitary GlandGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneHypothalamusGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneLuteinizing Hormoneluteinizing hormonescience historytranssphenoidal

Identifiers

PMID34918405
PMCPMC9200367
OpenAlexW3217783442

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Registered trials

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