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METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL
Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 229-231Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-0495(00)91429-X
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Testosterone production rates were determined in 16 patients with Cushing's syndrome (4 men and 12 women) using the stable-isotope dilution technique and mass spectrometry. 1 alpha,2 alpha-D-Testosterone was infused for 10 hours at a dose of 20 mu g/h (men) and 0.4 mu g/h (women) and blood samples were obtained at 20-minute intervals during the last 4 hours of the observation period. Estimated production rates in men with Cushing's syndrome were 27, 73, 150, and 180 mu g/h (mean, 106 +/- 70 mu g/h; healthy men [n = 12], 210 +/- 70 mu g/h). In the 12 women with Cushing's syndrome, testosterone production rates were 0.3 to 22.3 mu g/h (healthy women [n = 5], 4.3 +/- 1.9 mu g/h), There was no difference in testosterone production rates in female patients with central (n = 8) versus adrenal (n = 4) Cushing's syndrome. In summary, testosterone production rates are subnormal or low-normal in male patients with endogenous hypercortisolism, but not in female patients with the same disorder. We conclude that testosterone production in men, but not in women, is predominantly of gonadal origin and hence susceptible to a glucocorticoid-induced suppression of gonadotropin secretion. Copyright (C) 2000 by W.B, Saunders Company.
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