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Human Reproduction, Vol. 8, No. suppl_2, pp. 72-76, 1993
© 1993 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

Luteinizing hormone (LH) pulsatility during the oestradiol- and oestradiol/progesterone-induced LH surge in the human female

K.A. Brensing1, B. Smyczek2, S. Waibel-Treber3, L. Wildt4 and G. Leyendecker3,5

1 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Bonn W-5300 Bonn 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Tübingen W-7400 Töbingen 3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Frankfurt W-6100 Darmstadt 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Erlangen W-8520 Erlangen, Germany

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Positive feedback reactions were induced in five female volunteers with regular menstrual cycles on the pituitary secretion of luteinizing hormone (LH) during the follicular phase of the cycle by the i.m. administration of oestradiol benzoate (‘oestradiol study’), or by oestradiol benzoate followed by progesterone (‘oestradiol/progesterone study’). Prior to the administration of the steroids (basal profiles) and during the LH surges following the administration of the steroids (stimulation profiles), blood was drawn at 10-min intervals and the LH pulsatility assessed. The LH pulses occurred at hourly intervals in basal and stimulation profiles, which concurs with data obtained during the normal proliferative phase and the spontaneous mid-cycle surge of the cycle in both the human and the rhesus monkey. Our findings are, however, in sharp contrast with those obtained in the rhesus monkey by the determination of hypothalamic multi-unit activity.

Key words: GnRH pulse generator/LH pulsatility/LH surge/positive feedback


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