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ELEVATION OF SERUM GONADOTROPINS (LH AND FSH) AFTER RELEASING HORMONE (LH-RH) INJECTION IN NORMAL CHILDREN AND IN PATIENTS WITH DISORDERS OF PUBERTY¹

Laboratoire de Recherches sur la Croissance, Hôpital St-Vincent de Paul Paris 14°, France
Laboratoire des Isotopes, Faculté, St-Antoine Paris 12°, France

After injection of 0.1mg of synthetic luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH), levels of FSH and/or LH rise significantly in the serum of normal prepubertal children. LH-RH stimulation may be used to evaluate pituitary gonadotropic reserve in prepubertal patients with various hypothalamo-hypophysial and gonadal disorders.

¹ Submitted March 25th 1972

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