This study was aimed at determining the blood serum testosterone level and its relationship with scrotal circumference and physical characteristics of semen in Nili-Ravi buffalo bulls. Semen samples were collected weekly from three buffalo bulls of 14 years age for 12 weeks and were evaluated for physical characteristics i.e. ejaculatory volume, sperm motility, sperm concentration, pH and sperm...

Testosterone and Blood Pressure: Is the Decreased Sodium Excretion the Missing Link? To the Editor: With great interest I read the article by Davis et al published very recently in Hypertension. The authors gave testosterone treatment for a 10-week period to both obese Zucker rats and lean Zucker rats. In obese Zucker rats, testosterone supplements reduced body weight, plasma insulin, and chole...

Aim: To compare serum gelsolin levels of women with androgenetic alopecia PCOS and patients non-PCOS alopecia. Materials Methods: A total 30 who applied to our dermatology clinic the complaint hair loss were diagnosed (AGA) included in study. Thirty not but AGA considered as control group. Patients group matched terms age. was cases widespread thinning on scalp preservation frontal hairline. Al...

objective: the lipid composition of a mammal’s spermatozoa and seminal plasma vary in both structure and function. evidence exists to suggest that dietary supplementation with the appropriate polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufas) affects spermatogenesis, semen quality and sperm motility. therefore, this study has been conducted to evaluate the correlations between serum lipid profile and histolog...

Our aim was to examine whether serum testosterone concentrations are in fact low in hospitalized men with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes compared with healthy men. In this study, 79 men aged 40 years or older (41 healthy men and 38 men with type 2 diabetes) were included. Total testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin levels were measured. The average duration of diagnosed diabetes was ...

background: the antifertility effect of ampicillin (amp, 40 mg/kg) and sulphasalazine or salicylazosulfapyridine (sasp, 300,450 and 600 mg/kg) in male rats has been reported earlier. the combination of amp and sasp is generally used in certain pathological conditions, but the combined effect of these two drugs on the fertility is not clear. so, the aim of this study was to investigate the antif...

INTRODUCTION Data from animal, clinical and prevention studies support the role of androgens in prostate cancer growth, proliferation and progression. Results of serum based epidemiologic studies in humans, however, have been inconclusive. The present study aims to define whether serum testosterone can be used as a predictor of a posi¬tive second biopsy in males considered for re-biopsy. MATE...

background: although effects of trace elements on secretion of sex steroids and insulin have been studied, the effects of these hormones on serum level of trace elements have been rarely investigated. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of testosterone and finasteride administration and castration on serum levels of testosterone, insulin, zinc and chromium. methods: male adu...

Often, pathological Gleason Score (GS) and stage of prostate cancer (PCa) were inconsistent with biopsy GS and clinical stage. However, there were no widely accepted methods predicting upgrading and upstaging PCa. In our study, we investigated the association between serum testosterone and upgrading or upstaging of PCa after radical prostatectomy (RP). We enrolled 167 patients with PCa with bio...

Clinical investigations have indicated women have higher levels of adipocyte fatty acid binding protein (A-FABP) than men. The present study aimed to identify factors related to gender difference in serum A-FABP levels. A total of 507 participants (194 men, 132 premenopausal women, and 181 postmenopausal women) were enrolled in the present study. Serum A-FABP levels increased in the order from ...