Topic
Hydroxytestosterones
About: Hydroxytestosterones is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2 publications have been published within this topic receiving 62 citations.
Papers
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that 4-MA increases the accumulation of hydroxytestosterones by two mechanisms, and explains why 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone metabolites found to be poor substrates for steroid 5alpha-reductase disappeared from incubations containing liver microsomes from mature female rats.
52 citations
TL;DR: Pre-pubertal or cryptorchid human testis tissues seem in this study to have higher testosterone 6 beta- and 7 alpha-hydroxylase activity than normal adult testis tissue.
Abstract: Homogenates of normal or cryptorchid, human testes were incubated with [3H]testosterone and a NADPH-generating system. [3H]4-andostene,7 alpha,17 beta-diol-3-one (7 alpha-OH-testosterone) was isolated and identified from such incubations. To our knowledge this is the first demonstration that 7 alpha-OH-testosterone is a metabolite of testosterone in the human testis. 4-Andro-stene,6 beta,17 beta-diol-3-one (6 beta-OH-testosterone) and 4-androstene,16 alpha,17 beta-diol-3-one (16 alpha-OH-testosterone) were also identified as testosterone metabolites. The specific activity of both testosterone 6 beta- and 16 alpha-hydroxylase was higher than that of 7 alpha-hydroxylase. Pre-pubertal or cryptorchid human testis tissues seem in our study to have higher testosterone 6 beta- and 7 alpha-hydroxylase activity than normal adult testis tissue.
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| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 1988 | 1 |
| 1980 | 1 |