Kisspeptin the miracle reproduction kick-starter?

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A team of UK scientists says a recently discovered hormone could potentially form the basis of an effective and less risky fertility treatment.

Kisspeptin could restore reproductive function in women with low sex hormone levels whose system has shut down, says the team from Imperial College London.

The hormone plays a key role in stimulating release of the hormones which control the menstrual cycle.

The study was presented at a Society for Endocrinology conference.

Humans and animals lacking kisspeptin do not go through puberty and remain sexually immature.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7945600.stm

GREAt name! Whoever invented it should get one of those Nobel gongs...