Influence of prolonged HCG administration on testicular steroids of hypophysectomized rats.
Prolonged administration of HCG provokes both in normal and in hypophysectomized rats a shift of testosterone metabolism in incubated testes from predominating hydroxylation to reduction processes, indicating that this HCG effect can occur in the absence of the hypophysis.
D000818:Animals; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006900:Hydroxylation; D007016:Hypophysectomy; D008297:Male; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D013739:Testosterone / Q000378:metabolism*
D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D013739:Testosterone