Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening the door to development of a new class of ...

A hormone first discovered in Japanese quail turns out to play a major role in the mammalian reproductive system, acting on the brain to put the brakes on reproduction. The hormone, dubbed ...

Reproductive maturation and function are under the influence of a wide variety of regulatory signals, which include nutritional and metabolic cues, as well as hormones that control energy homeostasis.

Emerging research suggests the reproductive hormone kisspeptin may play a role in depression. Early findings suggest kisspeptin enhances activation in neural structures associated with sexual arousal ...

A recent study has provided researchers with a dataset of millions of hormone tests from medical records that shows seasonality with a winter-spring peak in hormones for reproduction, growth, ...

Researchers have successfully converted human pluripotent stem cells into purified pituitary cells that aggregated into hormone-secreting organoids. As reported June 8 in the journal Stem Cell Reports ...

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Arati Adhe Rojekar, Consultant – Gynaecology at PD Hinduja Hospital and MRC in Mahim, explained, “In males, it originates from specialised cells called Sertoli ...