Author:
DANUTRA VARAPAN,HARPER MAUREEN E.,GRIFFITHS K.
Abstract
SUMMARY
Male Sprague—Dawley rats were injected (i.m.) daily for 10 days with 100 μg of either oestradiol-17β, diethylstilboestrol (DES), dl-dihydrodibutylstilboestrol (dl-DHBS) or meso-dihydrodibutylstilboestrol (meso-DHBS) in 0·2 ml sesame oil. After 10 days, the testicular tissue was removed and incubated simultaneously with [7α-3H]dehydroepiandrosterone and [4-14C]17α-hydroxyprogesterone. Less testosterone was synthesized by the testicular tissue from animals treated with oestradiol-17β, DES and meso-DHBS than by the controls or animals treated with dl-DHBS. The decreased synthetic activity was related to the decreased activity of both the 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and 17α-pregnene-C17, 20-lyase enzyme systems.
Prostatic tissue was also incubated with [7α-3H]testosterone. Administration of DES, oestradiol-17β or meso-DHBS increased the metabolism of testosterone by the prostatic tissue with a marked effect on the 5α-reductase enzyme system.
Subject
Endocrinology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
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