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Urinary and blood hormonal profiles were studied throughout a monthly cycle in a patient with familial breast cancer. Two comparison cohorts (one high-risk and one low-risk) were studied concurrently. Findings disclosed that our breast cancer-affected patient showed a distinctive hormonal pattern characterized by significant elevation throughout the cycle of plasma estrone, estradiol, and prolactin. Save for a depression in plasma FSH in the early follicular phase, this hormone, as wells as LH and progesterone patterns in our patient, were similar to the comparison cohorts. Urinary estrone and estradiol patterns in our patient were elevated early in the follicular phase. Our patient also showed a depression in urinary estrone, estradiol, and estriol following ovulation, which persisted throughout the luteal phase. Blood and urinary hormone patterns in the high-risk cohort were not demonstrably different from the low-risk cohort, with the exception of plasma prolactin. The results on the latter hormone showed an unexpected significant depression throughout most of the menstrual cycle in this low-risk cohort. We conclude that estrone and estradiol elevations, as clearly evidenced in our breast-cancer-affected patient, may provide clues that ultimately might be used as an etiologic discriminant for breast cancer risk and which may also play a pathogenic role in this disease. Since this involved a single patient, our conclusions must be interpreted cautiously.
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PMID:Endocrine profile in a patient with familial breast cancer: a case-control study. 49 52

A double-blind comparison was made of the effects of testosterone undecanoate (TU) and placebo on sexual potency of 29 impotent men ages 45--75. The main criteria for inclusion in the study were a reduced or nonexistent capacity to have an erection during intercourse and no clinical signs of endocrinological pathology. All patients received placebo for 2 weeks. Then TU was given at a daily dose of 120 mg to 13 patients selected at random while the other patients continued to receive placebo. After 8 weeks all patients received placebo again for 2 weeks. An improvement in sexual potency was reported by five patients given TU and eight patients given placebo, with no significant differences between the groups. Treatment with TU influenced neither the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, as judged by levels of prolactin, LH, FSH, and the LHRH-induced LH/FSH response, nor depression, anxiety, and somatic scores or performance tests. The only specific effect of TU treatment was to decrease the total plasma testosterone level. The present findings show pharmacotherapy with androgens to be no more effective than placebo in restoring sexual potency to sexually impotent men without androgen deficiency. Further studies may be needed to elucidate fully the effects of androgen administration on psychological and endocrinological variables in such patients.
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PMID:Effects of testosterone undecanoate on sexual potency and the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis of impotent males. 51 86

In the normal subject, hypoprolactinic agents have a dose-dependent effect on the fall in prolactin (PRL). The depression of the secretion of progesterone is proportional to the inhibition of PRL. Certain hyperprolactinic substances do not alter pituitary-ovarian function. Others induce a luteal deficiency. The prolactinic profile of ovarian function without galactorrhoea is inconstant. There is no precise link between the possibility of inducing ovulation and PRL levels. Galactorrhoea without amenorrhoea is often accompanied by a normal PRL. By contrast, a high PRL, whilst not necessarily causing galactorrhoea, is usually accompanied by hypo-oestrogenic amenorrhoea (normo- or hypo-gonadaotrophic). Puerperal lactation results in a state of relative hyperprolactinaemia, which does not prevent relatively rapid restoration of FSH gonadotrophic function, to which the ovary fails to respond. Artificial weaning by bromocriptine permits a more rapid return of pituitary-ovarian function than natural weaning. Amenorrhoea-galactorrhoea is characterised by a PRL level which is abnormally high or at the upper limit of normal, and FSH gonadotrophic and ovarian/oestrogenic function which is abnormally low or at the lower limit of normal. LH gonadotrophic function and the ovarian production of progesterone are diminished.
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PMID:[Interferences between prolactin and ovarian function (author's transl)]. 56 18

The hormonal response of the anterior pituitary was studied in 10 normal males undergoing treadmill exercise testing, in 5 male patients undergoing diagnostic gastroscopy, and in 8 male patients undergoing elective surgery under general anaesthesia. Serum TSH was depressed below the baseline value at 2 and 3 h post-treadmill exercise, at 1, 2 and 3 h post-gastroscopy and from 10 min through 2 h post-surgery. Serum triiodothyronine was depressed below the baseline value at 10 min through 2 h post-surgery. Serum prolactin, growth hormone and cortisol were elevated by all three stressful procedures. Both gastroscopy and surgery resulted in an elevation of serum luteinizing hormone levels. There was no significant change in serum FSH levels in any of the three procedures. The post-stress depression in TSH levels could result from the suppressive effect at the hypothalamic-pituitary level of high serum levels of cortisol generated by the stress of the procedures.
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PMID:The effect of stressful diagnostic studies and surgery on anterior pituitary hormone release in man. 57 11

In 183 out patients of our department FSH, LH, prolactin and testosterone were measured in one single serum sample. In 43 of these, measurements were done prior and 30 min after injection of LH-RH and TRH. An analysis of the ejaculate was performed in each case. If prolactin levels are grouped according to sperm count or testosterone levels, means of prolactin do not differ significantly between these groups. Some individual levels exceed the normal range. The TRN stimulated prolactin levels are lowered when related to high testosterone levels. Significantly statistical correlations do not exist. Mean FSH levels show a clear depression related to high sperm counts and high testosterone levels. A significantly statistical correlation is found between FSH, LH and prolactin levels each. Determination of prolactin in patients with fertility disturbances may be helpful to detect a hyperprolactinemia, which possibly causes inhibition of the spermatognesis.
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PMID:[Prolaction level in the serum of patients with disorders of spermatogenesis]. 63 89

The intraperitoneal (i.p.) administration of sodium pentobarbital (30 mg/kg) to long-term ovariectomized adult rats results in a prolonged depression of serum LH levels and in a biphasic decrease of serum prolactin (Prl) titers, but does not modify serum levels of FSH. Consequently, caution should be used when interpretating neuroendocrine results obtained in animals submitted to pentobarbital anesthesia.
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PMID:Effect of pentobarbital on serum levels of LH, FSH and prolactin in long-term ovariectomized rats. 73 54

The influence of thyroid deficiency and the administration of thyroxine on pituitary-testicular function were studied in male albino rats from weaning age (22 days old) up to 82 days of age. The results showed that the hyperthyroid state induced by a daily injection of 2.5 or 5 microng L-thyroxine resulted in acceleration of growth, a comparative increase in size and number of spermatogenic and interstitial cells, an increase in the STH cells, particularly at the earlier age (42 days old), and in a decrease in the number and size of TSH cells. Gonadotrophic FSH and LH and prolactin cells exhibited an increase in their granular content. The hypothyroid state induced by thyroidectomy or thiourea feeding, at the levels of 0.1 and 0.2% resulted in the depression of growth rate, destructive changes of the spermatogenic and interstitial cells and also in the lumen of the seminiferous tubules. A decrease in the STH, gonadotrophic FSH and LH and prolactin cells and hypertrophy of TSH cells accompanied by degranulation were also observed.
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PMID:Pituitary-testicular function changes in hypo- and hyperthyroid male rats. 86 Jun 35

Severe weight loss in amenorrheic premenopausal women may significantly depress gonadotropin secretion. Gonadotropin leves were studied in 111 postmenopausal women to determine if weight loss and cachexia could similarly affect gonadotropin function. Thirty-three healthy ambulatory postmenopausal women and twenty-seven healthy hospitalized women admitted electively were found to have a wide range of elevated values, whose mean did not differ significantly. Mean levels for both LH and FSH were significantly suppressed (P less than .005) in severely ill postmenopausal women both with or without weight loss. (formula: see text) Recovety from illness in six patients was associated with a rapid rise in FSH levels while LH remained depressed. Two severely ill patients studied over a 6 h period revealed constant depression of both gonadotropins without the characteristic pulses seen in four normal control postmenopausal women. These results indicate that gonadotropin secretion may be suppressed in severely ill postmenopausal women whether weight loss is present of not, and the central nervous regulatory mechanism responsible for intermittant release of gonadotropins is impaired. The disparate FSH and LH recovery indicates that if separate gonadotrophs exist, the LH gonadotroph is more severely affected than the FSH gonadotroph and/or that the responsible regulatory mechanisms are different.
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PMID:The influence of severe illness on gonadotropin secretion in the postmenopausal female. 87 69

The symptomatic and endocrine changes following hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy have been studied in 100 patients, 1 to 31 years after surgery. The most frequent symptoms at the time of interview were depression (62 patients), insomnia (48 patients), loss of libido (46 patients) and dyspareunia (38 patients). Vasomotor symptoms were recorded in 28 patients. Although 94 patients claimed that hot flushes were the first symptomatic changes noticed, 60 had complete relief from these symptoms within 6 months of surgery; 34 patients had no symptoms and only 4 patients were taking oestrogen therapy at the time of interview. Plasma oestradiol and testosterone levels were 78 per cent and 27 per cent respectively below the mean values of day 1 to 10 of the menstrual cycle, similar to those found at comparable years after a normal menopause. The plasma FSH level was about 14 times and the plasma LH level about twice the respective preoperative value. Unlike after the normal menopause, these gonadotrophin levels did not show any decline with increasing age. There was no correlation between plasma hormone levels and the presence of vasomotor symptoms or depression.
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PMID:Endocrine changes and symptomatology after oophorectomy in premenopausal women. 92 14

The effect of Danazol, a new gonadotropin inhibitor, was examined in four categories of patients. (1) Ten normal women medicated orally with Danazol, 800 mg. daily for 91 days, showed no depression of serum LH, estrone, estradiol, or progesterone below control, second-day levels. The serum FSH was slightly depressed; (2) Two anovulatory patients having elevated serum LH values were treated with Danazol, 400 to 800 mg. daily, for 1 to 3 days at midcycle. One patient repeatedly showed a temperature rise and LH flood within 24 hours of initial medication. Both had menstrual periods 7 to 9 days later. (3) Two normal midcycle ovulators were treated with 400 and 800 mg; of Danazol, respectively, for 1 day in the midfollicular phase and one apparently ovulated promptly prematurely. (4) Two patients having severe hot flushes following surgical menopause were treated with Danazol, 800 mg; daily, without reducing FSH or LH but with disappearance of hot flushes.
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PMID:The effects of danazol on gonadotropins and steroid blood levels in normal and anovulatory women. 111 90


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