Lhrh Agonist Overview

A gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist is a synthetic peptide modeled after the hypothalamic neurohormone GnRH that interacts with the gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor to elicit its biologic response, the release of the pituitary hormones FSH and LH. GnRH agonists are pregnancy category X drugs. Agonists do not quickly dissociate from the GnRH receptor. As a result initially there is an increase in FSH and LH secretion . However after about ten days...