The Science of Therapeutic Peptides · Volume VII

Reproductive, Sexual & Endocrine

Reproductive, sexual, and endocrine signaling.

9 chapters

1. VII.1GonadorelinThe brain’s ten-letter instruction to the body’s reproductive engine — synthetic gonadotropin-releasing hormone→
2. VII.2hCGThe pregnancy hormone that built the pregnancy test, and the diet it never worked for→
3. VII.3HMGThe fertility drug distilled from the urine of nuns, and what sixty years of trials could and could not settle→
4. VII.4Kisspeptin-10The ten residues that switch on puberty, and the gene named after a chocolate→
5. VII.5Melanotan-IThe tanning drug that became a medicine for people who cannot go outside→
6. VII.6Melanotan-IIA molecule designed to prevent skin cancer, and what became of it→
7. VII.7OxytocinThe molecule that built peptide chemistry, and the biology of birth, milk and attachment→
8. VII.8PT-141Bremelanotide — a melanocortin agonist that acts on the brain→
9. VII.9TRHThe first hypothalamic releasing hormone — three amino acids that opened the portal-blood era of neuroendocrinology→