Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$78,000.00

Award Date

8/26/2010

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Ovulation depends on a surge in the release of luteinizing hormone (LH), which in turn depends on a surge of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). In recent years, kisspeptin (KISS) has emerged as the most potent stimulator of GnRH and a key regulator of