Author:
Abbott D. H.,Batty K. A.,Dubey A. K.,Herbert J.,Shiers H. M.
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Seven castrated monkeys were given either 50 or 100 μg 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) propionate/kg per day. There was no correlation between serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of DHT, which remained very low in the CSF (0·3–0·6% of blood levels) despite the presence of high, supraphysiological amounts in the circulation. There was also no relation between unbound DHT in the blood and the CSF, in which all DHT is unbound. These results differ from previous work on testosterone, the metabolic precursor of DHT.
5α-Dihydrotestosterone propionate at the higher dose maintained suppressed levels of serum LH; LH in two out of four monkeys treated at the lower dose increased to levels observed in castrated, untreated rhesus monkeys. There was no predictable relationship between the amount of DHT in the CSF and levels of LH in the blood: by contrast, DHT in the blood was correlated with serum levels of LH. Levels of LH rose in monkeys in which total blood DHT fell below about 68 nmol/l and, even more obviously, if unbound DHT decreased to less than about 2 nmol/l.
Differences between the distribution of testosterone and DHT between blood and CSF cannot be explained by serum binding, lipid solubility or clearance from the brain, and suggest that there may be some mechanism for excluding DHT from the CSF. Though DHT reaches the CSF from the blood in small amounts, levels there do not relate predictably to those in the vascular compartment. It seems unlikely, therefore, that levels of intracerebral DHT are controlled by changes in those of the blood.
J. Endocr. (1985) 104, 325–330
Subject
Endocrinology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
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