Sex Differences in Adrenocortical Structure and Function: 29. Morphometric and Functional Studies on the Effects of Gonadectomy and Gonadal-Hormone Replacement on the Hamster Adrenal Cortex
作者:
L.K. Malendowicz,
G.G. Nussdorfer,
期刊:
Cells Tissues Organs
(Karger Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 145,
issue 1
页码: 68-72
ISSN:1422-6405
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1159/000147344
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Adrenal cortex;Sex dimorphism;Morphometry;Steroidogenesis
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
The morphologic changes evoked in the adrenal glands of male and female hamsters by gonadectomy (15 weeks) and gonadal-hormone replacement (single s.c. injection of 5 mg/l00 g b.w. testosterone or 0.5 mg/l00 g b.w. estradiol, 2 weeks before the sacrifice) were investigated by morphometric techniques and correlated with the functional alterations of the hypothalamopituitary-adrenal axis. Our findings evidenced a stimulatory role of androgens and a moderate inhibitory one of estrogens on the growth and steroidogenic capacity of the adrenal glands in male and female hamsters, respectively. Moreover, they suggest that these adrenal effects of gonadal hormones are, at least partly, independent of alterations in the pituitary ACTH release.
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