title: [Study of hypophyseal and gonadal hormones and cases of postmenopausal occurrence of bronchial asthma].
abstract: A study was conducted into the hormone profile of women with no previous history of allergy who developed bronchial asthma after menopause in order to discover any differences between these and patients of a similar age with allergic bronchial asthma. The serum levels of the following hypophyseal and gonadal hormones were therefore analysed: luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), prolactin (PRL), 17 oestradiol (17BE2) in both groups of patients and in a control group of healthy postmenopausal volunteers. The results showed lower FSH and LH and higher 17B7(2) levels in the patients with bronchial asthma but no clinical history of allergy than in either the patients with allergic asthma or the healthy volunteers. When the hormone picture in some of the group 1 patients normalised, the clinical symptoms disappeared. One possible explanation is the following: excess oestrogen in the "non-allergy" patients might have caused an imbalance in the PgF/PgE ratio which is thought to contribute to the regulation of bronchomotor tone. The same phenomena might also have accelerated the release of arachidonic acid and its metabolites.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Farina
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Colombi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cantone
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pastore
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Centanni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Galimberti
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000097:blood; D001249:Asthma / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000097:blood*; D008593:Menopause; D008875:Middle Aged; D011388:Prolactin / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D004958:Estradiol; D011388:Prolactin; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone
vernacular_title: Studio degli ormoni ipofiso-gonadici ad insorgenza post-menopausale in alcuni casi di asma bronchiale.