Thyroid and fertility.
The aim of this work is to specify the relationship between the thyroid function and the hypothalamo-hypophyso-gonadal axis. Qualitative and quantitative repercussions of a thyroid pathology on human or animal fertility, male or female are very variable. A review of mechanisms of action is presented, illustrating: the complexity of the phenomena in cause; the necessity not to dissociate thyroid and reproductive function either clinically or biologically; the serious consequences of either undetected or untreated neo-natal thyroid pathology.
Mayer
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Laboratory of Histology, Embryology and Cytogenetic, University of Bordeaux, France.
Diarra
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Koffi
M
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Pité
D000818:Animals; D005298:Fertility / Q000502:physiology*; D006062:Gonadotropins / Q000502:physiology; D006066:Gonads / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007030:Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / Q000502:physiology*; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000502:physiology*; D013963:Thyroid Hormones / Q000502:physiology
D006062:Gonadotropins; D013963:Thyroid Hormones