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  • Title: Subnormal pubertal increases of serum androgens in Turner's syndrome.
    Author: Apter D, Lenko HL, Perheentupa J, Söderholm A, Vihko R.
    Journal: Horm Res; 1982; 16(3):164-73. PubMed ID: 6213544.
    Abstract:
    60 patients (139 blood specimens) with Turner's syndrome were investigated in order to obtain information concerning the origin of the increments of androgens during puberty. The concentrations of serum FSH, LH, estradiol, testosterone, 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, progesterone, 17-hydroxyprogesterone and pregnenolone in patients less than 10 years old were identical to those previously found in normal healthy girls of the same age. Hence, in adrenarche the early increase of androgen secretion is independent of gonadal hormone secretion. The later increases in serum testosterone and androstenedione in our patients were very small, and the age of 15 years, their concentrations were 50 and 60%, respectively, of the corresponding levels in normal girls of the same age. After 13 years of age, the mean serum dehydroepiandrosterone concentration was also slightly, but significantly (20-30%), lower than in normal girls of the same age. It is concluded that the ovaries are responsible for most of the pubertal rises in circulating testosterone and androstenedione, and possibly for a small part of the late pubertal rise in dehydroepiandrosterone.
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