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Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Antagonist
A synthetic peptide that competes with the neurohormone GnRH for its receptor, thus decreasing or blocking GnRH action. As a result endogenous pituitary output of FSH and LH is shut down. (NCI Thesaurus)
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