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Science 14 January 1972:
Vol. 175. no. 4018, pp. 196 - 198
DOI: 10.1126/science.175.4018.196
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Gonadotropin Secretion during Sleep in Normal Adult Men

Robert T. Rubin 1, Anthony Kales 1, Robert Adler 1, Timothy Fagan 1, and William Odell 1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033; Brain Research Institute, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles; Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, San Diego, California;and Department of Medicine, Harbor General Hospital, Torrance, California

Release of luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone during sleep in young adult men occurred in unrelated, random, arrhythmic peaks, with no consistency from night to night in the same subject. Release of luteinizing hormone was modestly but significantly larger (14 perecnt) during rapid-eye-movement sleep than it was in non-REM sleep, but release of follicle stimulating hormone was not clearly related to stages of sleep.


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