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Dual Somatic Recordings from Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Neurons Identified by Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) in Hypothalamic Slices
Published on: February 23, 2010
Gonadotropin receptors
1Unité de Recherches Hormones et Reproduction, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 135, Hôpital de Bicêtre, France.
Abstract:
Gonadotropin receptors belong to a subgroup of G-protein coupled receptors characterized by a large extracellular domain responsible for the binding of the hormone. Soluble, hormone-binding, alternative splicing variants of the LH receptor, are present in high concentration. A mannose rich precursor form of LH and FSH receptor is accumulated inside target cells. FSH receptors are addressed to the basolateral domain of cells through specific signaling mechanisms. Gonadotropin receptors are also present in endothelial cells of target organ vessels and are involved in hormone transcytosis. Various genetic abnormalities of these receptors (and of the GnRH receptor) are discussed.
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