Effect of a melatonin-free extract from bovine pineal on plasma and urinary steroids and on serum prolactin in hirsute amenorrheic adolescents.
1986
Basal and post-suppressive dexamethasone (dxm) levels of some urinary androgen metabolites, plasma testosterone (T), 17 hydroxyprogesterone (17 OHP) and of basal serum prolactin were determined in 34 hirsute amenorrheic adolescents aged 13-17 in whom a five day course of bovine pineal extract (4 ml a day i.m.) was instituted. No convincing effect of pineal extract administration on plasma T and 17 OHP and on serum prolactin was detectable in most of pineal-treated patients. Suppressibility to dxm of plasma T and 17 OHP was not a relevant index of both the origin of androgens or the clinical course of the patients.
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