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To study the involvement of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in glycosylation of circulating gonadotropin isoforms in anorexia nervosa (AN), 14 amenorrhoic patients with AN, 14 age-matched volunteers in early follicular phase, and five normal-weight re-fed patients with AN were investigated under baseline conditions and after acute administration of GnRH. Plasma gonadotropins were assayed using IRMA before and after concanavalin A affinity chromatography. Baseline plasma gonadotropin levels were lower for both AN and re-fed AN patients than in controls (P&lt;0.005). The increase in FSH and LH after GnRH administration was lower than in controls for AN (P&lt;0.005) and re-fed AN (P&lt;0.005 and P&lt;0.05 respectively) patients. Percentages of total gonadotropin not bound to concanavalin A (complex carbohydrate chains) under baseline conditions were higher in patients with AN than in controls (P&lt;0.005) but decreased after GnRH administration (P&lt;0.001). In re-fed AN patients, the percentage of unbound FSH was higher than in controls (P&lt;0.05), and decreased after GnRH administration (P&lt;0.001), whereas the percentages of unbound LH were not significantly different from controls either before or after GnRH administration. These data suggest that: (a) the acute administration of GnRH induces quantitative and qualitative changes in circulating gonadotropin isoforms in both normal controls and AN patients; (b) during recovery the LH response in re-fed AN patients is associated with a glycosylation pattern that is the same as that for controls.

european journal of endocrinology

Changes in the glycosylation pattern of circulating gonadotropins after acute administration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in patients with anorexia nervosa