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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI105696

Splanchnic Extraction and Interconversion of Testosterone and Androstenedione in Man

Marco A. Rivarola, Robert T. Singleton, and Claude J. Migeon

Harriet Lane Service of The Children's Medical and Surgical Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, Baltimore, Maryland

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

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Address requests for reprints to Dr. Claude J. Migeon, CMSC 3-110, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 21205.

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Received for publication 5 June 1967 and in revised form 4 August 1967.

Supported by U. S. Public Health Service Research Grant AM-00180 and Research Career Award K6-AM-21, 855 (CJM), and by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Consejo National de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas of Argentima (MAR).

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Harriet Lane Service of The Children's Medical and Surgical Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, Baltimore, Maryland

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

‡

Address requests for reprints to Dr. Claude J. Migeon, CMSC 3-110, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 21205.

*

Received for publication 5 June 1967 and in revised form 4 August 1967.

Supported by U. S. Public Health Service Research Grant AM-00180 and Research Career Award K6-AM-21, 855 (CJM), and by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Consejo National de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas of Argentima (MAR).

Find articles by Singleton, R. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Harriet Lane Service of The Children's Medical and Surgical Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, Baltimore, Maryland

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

‡

Address requests for reprints to Dr. Claude J. Migeon, CMSC 3-110, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 21205.

*

Received for publication 5 June 1967 and in revised form 4 August 1967.

Supported by U. S. Public Health Service Research Grant AM-00180 and Research Career Award K6-AM-21, 855 (CJM), and by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Consejo National de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas of Argentima (MAR).

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Published December 1, 1967 - More info

Published in Volume 46, Issue 12 on December 1, 1967
J Clin Invest. 1967;46(12):2095–2100. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI105696.
© 1967 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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Abstract

A constant infusion of 3H-testosterone and 14C-androstenedione was administered to four human subjects, two males and two females, until the concentrations of radioactive testosterone and androstenedione in systemic plasma became constant. At that time the concentrations of radioactive testosterone and androstenedione in hepatic vein plasma were determined. Splanchnic extraction of testosterone and androstenedione and the contribution of the splanchnic system to the blood interconversion of testosterone and androstenedione were calculated.

Androstenedione is extracted by the splanchnic system more efficiently than testosterone since 82.3% of androstenedione and 44% of testosterone were removed from the plasma after one passage.

The fraction of testosterone entering the splanchnic system that is transferred to blood androstenedione was 0.011 and the maximum possible transfer due to recirculation was 0.026. This was 28% of the total blood transfer from testosterone to androstenedione. The fraction of androstenedione entering the splanchnic system that is transferred to blood testosterone after one passage was 0.005, whereas the maximum possible transfer in this system was 0.006. This represented only 16% of the total transfer from androstenedione to testosterone. Therefore, a large fraction of the interconversion of testosterone and androstenedione in vivo occurs outside the splanchnic system.

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