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  • Title: Role of endogenous opiates in the modulation of gonadotropin secretion in infant monkeys (Macaca mulatta): effects of naltrexone.
    Author: Osborn RG, Fuller GB, Hobson WC, Reyes FI, Faiman C.
    Journal: J Med Primatol; 1989; 18(5):405-14. PubMed ID: 2509710.
    Abstract:
    A potential inhibitory role of endogenous opioids in the gonadotropin decline from infancy to the prepubertal period in primates was assessed by examining the effect of the specific opioid antagonist naltrexone on gonadotropin levels in infant rhesus monkeys. Paradoxically, both chronic administration of naltrexone to neonatally castrate males as well as acute administration of graded doses to intact infant females resulted in gonadotropin suppression compared to appropriate vehicle-treated controls. Thus, naltrexone behaves as a gonadotropin secretory antagonist in infant monkeys and cannot be used to unmask a putative inhibitory mechanism involving endogenous opiates.
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