In order to elucidate the presence of free FSH-beta and LH-beta and their relation to the native hormones, immunoreactive FSH (IR-FSH), IR-LH, IR-FSH-beta, and IR-LH-beta subunits in the rat anterior pituitary and serum from 1200hr of proestrous day to 0600hr of estrous day were measured by radioimmunoassay. The amounts of IR-FSH-beta found were always more than those explained by the cross-rea...

OBJECTIVE Men with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) have impaired fertility. We aimed to assess fertility outcomes and the importance of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, testicular failure and the presence of testicular adrenal rest tumours (TART). DESIGN Retrospective analysis of men attending an adult CAH clinic in a tertiary centre. PATIENTS Fifty men with CAH due to 21 hydroxylase def...

Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN) is a disorder due to a disturbance in the peroxisomal beta-oxidation of saturated very long chain fatty acids. It is characterized by symptoms of the nervous as well as the endocrine systems, especially the adrenal cortex and the gonads. We investigated the testicular function in 49 male AMN patients aged 36.2 +/- 1.5 years (range, 18.5-59 years). Twenty-four of thes...

We investigate the possibilities of inverting the VMPC one-way function, which was proposed at FSE 2004. First, we describe the function using the language of permutation theory. Next, easily invertible instances of VMPC are derived. We also show that no VMPC function is oneto-one. Implications of these results for cryptographic applications of VMPC conclude the paper.

Glycoprotein hormone receptors contain a large extracellular domain that is encoded by multiple exons, facilitating the possibility of expressing alternatively spliced transcripts. We have cloned two new splice variants of the rat follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) receptor gene: FSH-R1 and FSH-R2. The splice variant FSH-R1 differs from the full-length FSH receptor mRNA by the inclusion of a sm...