Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word GONADOTROPES

Definitions of GONADOTROPES

1. plural of gonadotrope.

Examples of Using GONADOTROPES in a Sentence

• Luteinizing hormone, a hormone synthesized and secreted by gonadotropes in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
• Gonadotropic cells (called also gonadotropes, gonadotrophs, delta cells or delta basophils) are endocrine cells in the anterior pituitary that produce the gonadotropins, such as the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH).
• In a process known as downregulation, daily stimulation of pituitary gonadotropes causes them to become desensitized to the effects of histrelin.
• Its expression leads to ontogenesis of pituitary gonadotropes, as well as somatotropes, lactotropes, and caudomedial thyrotropes.
• Of the adenohypophyseal hormones, the most frequently affected are corticotropes, lactotropes and gonadotropes, all which are found in the anterior pituitary.

Page preparation took: 209.27 ms.