Endocrine Abstracts

The recent discovery of human mutations in genes encoding gonadotrophins and their receptors has greatly expanded our knowledge about the pituitary-gonadal function. Further information has been obtained from the numerous gene-modified animal models where the normal pituitary-gonadal function has been disrupted either by transgenic or gene disruption techniques. These studies have unravelled, for instance, the specific functions of the two gonadotropins, FSH and LH, in the abs...

Ilpo Huhtaniemi, Department of Physiology, University of Turku, Finland and Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, UK AbstractIlpo Huhtaniemi received his MD (1972) and PhD (1974) degrees at University of Helsinki, Finland, did his postdoctoral training in the US (UCSF and NIH, Bethesda), and has been a visiting scientist in Germany (University of Heidelberg) ...