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Pulsatile gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) treatment in hypogonadotrophic amenorrhoea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2009

Didi DM Braat
Didi DM Braat*
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Academic Hospital Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Didi DM Braat, Academic Hospital Vrije Universiteit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Following the isolation, and subsequent synthesis of the decapeptide gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the laboratories of Schally and Guillemin in 1971, a more physiological treatment for hypogonadotrophic women became available. It was not, however, until 1980 that a successful, pulsatile mode of administration was established.

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Reproductive Medicine Review , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 1993 , pp. 119 - 128
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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