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Animal studies suggest they interact to affect pulsatile GnRH release (KNDy hypothesis); kisspeptin stimulates, NKB modulates, and dynorphin (an opioid) inhibits.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objective:<\/jats:title><jats:p>To investigate the KNDy hypothesis in humans, we assessed for the first time the effects of the coadministration of kisspeptin-54, NKB, and an opioid receptor antagonist, naltrexone, on LH pulsatility (surrogate marker for GnRH pulsatility) and gonadotropin release.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design, Setting, and Participants:<\/jats:title><jats:p>This was an ethically approved prospective, single-blinded, placebo-controlled study. Healthy male volunteers (n = 5\/group) attended our research facility for eight study visits.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Intervention and Main Outcome Measure:<\/jats:title><jats:p>After 1 hour of baseline blood sampling, participants received a different intervention at each visit: oral 50 mg naltrexone, 8-hour iv infusions of vehicle, 2.56 nmol\/kg \u00b7 h NKB, 0.1 nmol\/kg \u00b7 h kissspeptin-54 (KP) alone and in combination. Frequent blood sampling to measure plasma gonadotropins and sex steroids was conducted and LH pulsatility was determined using blinded deconvolution analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>All kisspeptin and naltrexone containing groups potently increased LH and LH pulsatility (P &amp;lt; .001 vs vehicle). NKB alone did not affect gonadotropins. NKB+KP had significantly lower increases in gonadotropins compared with kisspeptin alone (P &amp;lt; .01). Naltrexone+KP was the only group to significantly increase LH pulse amplitude (P &amp;lt; .001 vs vehicle).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our results suggest significant interactions between the KNDy neuropeptides on LH pulsatility and gonadotropin release in humans. 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