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No holy grail for puberty

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How does the brain initiate puberty? A new study suggests that neither the cells producing nor the cells receiving the neuromodulator kisspeptin are required for puberty and that the latter may even be dispensable for adult fertility.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of potential central neuronal networks controlling reproduction.

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  1. The author is in the Departments of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Internal Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,

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