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Hypothalamic regulation of pituitary secretion of luteinizing hormone

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Luteinizing hormone (LH) is secreted continuously from the anterior pituitary gland. The concentration in the blood of this gonadotropic hormone plays a regulatory role in the development of puberty in both sexes, in the induction of ovulation in females, and in the production of testosterone in males. The secretion of LH is in turn controlled by luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) secreted by the hypothalamus. LH and LHRH are removed from the blood by degradation and excretion.

This hormonal system is modelled by a system of ordinary differential equations based upon specific physiological and biochemical assumptions current among experimentalists in this field. The one exception is the assumption that LHRH may bind reversibly to a serum protein; an analysis of the data shows that this or a similar mechanism is a crucial specification. Data on the serum levels of LH and LHRH in two human subjects were fitted using the model. The data consist of the transients and subsequent decays created by a bolus intravenous injection of LHRH.

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  1. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada

    T. W. Melnyk, I. W. Richardson, A. A. Simpson & William R. Smith

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Melnyk, T.W., Richardson, I.W., Simpson, A.A. et al. Hypothalamic regulation of pituitary secretion of luteinizing hormone. Bltn Mathcal Biology 38, 387–400 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02462213

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