Urinary Androstanediol and Testosterone in Adults
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 42 (1), 152-154
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-42-1-152
Abstract
Data are presented on the daily urinary excretion of androstanediol and testosterone in healthy adults using a sensitive radioligand assay. In nine men, the average urinary androstanediol (79 μg/day) was not significantly different from the urinary testosterone (84 μg/day). However, in women the average values of urinary androstanediol excretion (12 μg/day) were significantly higher than the urinary testosterone (4.2 μg/day). In each of the females, the urinary androstanediol was greater than the urinary testosterone. The data do not support the hypothesis that the daily urinary androstanediol excretion is a measure of die 5α-reduction of testosterone in androgen target tissues.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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