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Notably, testosterone levels were reduced to castrate levels within 3 d and remained depleted throughout the 4-wk dosing period, an effect that was faster and more pronounced than leuprolide (1 nmol\/h) dosing. KISS1-305 also reduced genital organ weight more profoundly than leuprolide. In mechanistic studies, chronic KISS1-305 administration only transiently induced c-Fos expression in GnRH neurons, suggesting that GnRH-neural response was attenuated over time. Hypothalamic GnRH content was reduced to 10\u201320% of control at 3 wk without any changes in Gnrh mRNA expression. Dosing with the investigational peptide TAK-448 was also studied to extend our understanding of hypothalamic-pituitary functions. Similar to ORX, TAK-448 (0.1 nmol\/h) depleted testosterone and decreased GnRH content by 4 wk. However, in contrast to ORX, TAK-448 decreased gonadotropin levels in pituitary and plasma samples, implying the suppression of GnRH pulses. These results suggest that chronic administration of kisspeptin analogs disrupts endogenous kisspeptin signals to suppress intrinsic GnRH pulses, perhaps by attenuating GnRH-neural response and inducing continuous GnRH leakage from the hypothalamus. 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