The Menstrual Cycle

Hormonal regulation of c-KIT receptor and its ligand: implications for human infertility?

“…The actions of LH in female reproduction are essentiality related with the induction of ovulation and maintenance of the activity of corpus luteum (Jones and Lopez, 2014), GnRH antagonists are associated with an increased expression of SCF through a direct action at granulosa cells, which express the GnRHr. The effects of LH increasing the levels of SCF in granulosa cells, also occur directly via the LHr present in this cell type.…”