The Role of Testosterone in the Feedback Control of Male FSH and LH Secretion

Overview

Journal Klin Wochenschr

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1975 Mar 1

PMID 1152351

Authors

G Borsch

J Mauss

E Richter

K Bormacher

G Leyendecker

W NOCKE

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Abstract

Intramuscular administration of 250 mg testosterone oenanthate per week over a period of 21 weeks treatment rapidly and sustainedly suppressed serum LH as well as FSH levels in seven normal males, while serum testosterone rose by a factor of approximately two. These together with other data provide increasing evidence for a feedback control of FSH secretion by gonadal steroids in the male in addition to the already described but as yet undefined tubular testicular factor.

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