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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

1 Pituitary and Neuroendocrinology

New clinical investigation

ey0015.1-9 | New clinical investigation | ESPEYB15

1.9 Divergent responses to kisspeptin in children with delayed puberty

YM Chan , MF Lippincott , TO Kusa , SB Seminara

To read the full abstract: JCI Insight 2018;3. pii: 99109The effects of kisspeptin administration in adults are well known. Whatever, the mode of administration, kisspeptin elicits an increase of LH and FSH blood levels in normal men and women. By analogy to rodents and non-human primates, it has been speculated that the response to kisspeptin is majorated at puberty in humans, which could be...