NEUROENDOCRINE REGULATION OF PULSATILE LUTEINIZING-HORMONE SECRETION IN ELDERLY MEN

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KAUFMAN, JM
DESLYPERE, JP
GIRI, M
VERMEULEN, A
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[1] Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent
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10.1016/0960-0760(90)90493-5
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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Leyding cell function is driven by LH, secreted in a pulsatile manner by the anterior pituitary in response to episodic discharge of hypothalamic LHRH into the pituitary portal circulation, under control of a yet to be defined neural mechanism, the "hypothalamic LHRH pulse generator". The normal aging process in elderly men is accompanied by a decline in Leydig cell function. Whereas primary testicular factors undoubtedly play an important role in the decrease of circulating (free) testosterone levels with age, recent studies demonstrated that aging also affects the central compartment of the neuroendocrine cascade. Hypothalamic alterations comprise changes in the regulation of the frequency of the LHRH pulse generator with an inappropriately low frequency relative to the prevailing androgen impregnation and opioid tone, and with an increased sensitivity to retardation of the LHRH pulse generator by androgens. As observed by some authors in basal conditions and by others after endocrine manipulations, LH pulse amplitude seems also to be reduced in elderly men as compared to young subjects. This is most probably the consequence of a reduction in the amount of LHRH released by the hypothalamus. Indeed, challenge of the gonadotropes with low, close to physiological doses of LHRH in young and elderly men reveals no alterations in pituitary responsiveness when looking at either the response for immunoreactive LH or bioactive LH. Deconvolution analysis on data obtained after low-dose LHRH suggests a markedly prolonged plasma half-life of LH in elderly men, a finding which may explain the paradoxical increase of mean LH levels in face of the reduced or unchanged frequency and amplitude of LH pulses.
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