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TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages 208-217Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2018.01.007
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It is common opinion that maximal activation of luteinizing hormone (LH)-dependent steroidogenic signal occurs at < 1% of human LH/choriogonado-tropin (hCG) receptor (LHCGR) occupancy. This effect would be a consequence of an excess of receptors expressed on the surface of theca cells, resulting in a pool of LHCGRs remaining unbound (spare). This concept was borrowed from historical pharmacological studies, when discrepancies between ligand-receptor binding and dose-response curves of cAMP were evaluated by treating mouse or rat Leydig cells with hCG in vitro. Recent findings demonstrated the specificity of LH- and hCG-dependent effects, receptor heterodimerization, and differing behaviors of rodent versus human gonadotropin-responsive cells, which may help to revise the 'spare' LHCGRs concept applied to human ovarian physiology and assisted reproduction.
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