title: Role of fibroblast growth factor signaling in gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuronal system development.
abstract: There is growing evidence demonstrating that fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling is important for the development of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neuronal system. In humans, loss-of-function mutations in FGF receptor 1 (Fgfr1) and Fgf8 lead to hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) with or without anosmia. Insights into how FGF signaling deficiency disrupts the GnRH system in humans are beginning to emerge from studies using transgenic mouse models. In this review, we summarize GnRH system defects in several lines of FGF signaling-deficient mice. We showed that FGF signaling is critically required for olfactory placode induction, differentiation, and GnRH neuronal fate specification and postnatal maintenance. Extrapolating from these transgenic mouse data, we suggest that idiopathic HH in patients harboring loss-of-function Fgfr1 and/or Fgf8 mutations is not merely a result of defective GnRH neuronal migration, but also insults accumulated in the GnRH system during fate specification and postnatal development.
authors.forename: Wilson C J
authors.initials: WCJ
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Pei-San
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Tsai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000187:drug effects; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000502:physiology; D005346:Fibroblast Growth Factors / Q000502:physiology*; D007987:Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / Q000172:deficiency / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007006:Hypogonadism / Q000503:physiopathology; D017436:Kallmann Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009833:Olfactory Pathways / Q000196:embryology; D051496:Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 1 / Q000235:genetics; D017468:Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor / Q000235:genetics*; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D017468:Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor; D007987:Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone; D005346:Fibroblast Growth Factors; D051496:Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 1
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