Acipenser persicus is one of the economically valuable fishes in the Caspian Sea. Due to the economical and cultural importance of sturgeons in the world, understanding of sturgeon reproduction is necessary for successful management of their populations in aquaculture and nature. To improve the culture methods and to facilitate captive breeding programs to support restocking, it is necessary to...

The results of this study, carried out with purified rat Leydig cells, indicate that there are no major differences in the stimulating effects of lutropin (LH) and luliberin (LHRH) agonists on steroidogenesis via mechanisms that are dependent on Ca2+. This was demonstrated by using inhibitors of calmodulin and the lipoxygenase pathways of arachidonic acid metabolism. All three calmodulin inhibi...

INTRODUCTION Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the lynchpin of treatment for advanced prostate cancer. Prescribing physicians and patients have a choice between orchiectomy, luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists, combined androgen deprivation (CAD) or LHRH antagonists. MATERIALS AND METHODS Literature relating to the use of LHRH antagonists in the management of prostate ca...

Manganese chloride (MnCl2) is capable of stimulating luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) secretion in adult male Sprague-Dawley rats through the activation of the hypothalamic nitric oxide/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)/protein kinase G pathway. The present study aimed to determine the involvement of specific neurotransmitters involved in this action. Our results indicate that d...

This article gives an overview of current pharmacological treatment of paraphilias and sex offenders focusing on the situation in Germany. Information about selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) is followed by data about established antihormonal substances (cyproterone acetate/CPA, and medroxyprogesterone acetate/MPA), as well as a more detailed account on luteinizing hormone-releasing...

Polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) micelles modified with cancer cell targeting moieties were prepared for intracellular delivery of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) small interfering RNA (siRNA). A luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) peptide analogue was coupled as a cancer targeting ligand to the distal end of the poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-siRNA conjugate. The siRNA-PEG-LHRH co...

Triple-negative breast cancer does not express estrogen and progesterone receptors and there is no overexpression/amplification of the HER2-neu gene. Therefore, this subtype of breast cancer lacks the benefits of specific therapies which target these receptors. About 60% of all human breast cancers express receptors for luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH, GnRH), which might be used as ...

Previously we have shown that g-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is an inhibitory neurotransmitter restricting the pubertal increase in LHRH release in juvenile monkeys, and that interfering with GABA synthesis with an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (AS) for glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD67) mRNA results in an increase in LHRH release in prepubertal monkeys. GAD67 is a catalytic enzyme that synthesiz...

Basal plasma luteinising hormone concentrations and the LH responses to LH-releasing hormone injection were higher in 11 young men after recovery from mania than in 15 control subjects. Since plasma concentrations of testosterone and sex hormone binding globulin were similar in the recovered manic compared with the control subjects, the increased LH response to LHRH is likely to have been due t...

The luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and testosterone response of bull calves implanted with estradiol-17 beta to continuous and pulsatile infusion of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) has been examined. Estradiol-17 beta reduced serum LH and FSH concentrations and suppressed testosterone secretion and testicular growth when compared with sham-implanted bu...