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Infrequent low dose testosterone treatment maintains male sexual behavior in Syrian hamsters.

Abstract：

:Testosterone (T) secreted in short pulses several times each day is essential for the maintenance of male sex behavior (MSB) in mammals. Blood T concentrations are relatively low during inter-pulse intervals. Assessment of androgenic influences on MSB of rodents has, with very few exceptions, involved either injections of pure or esterified hormones dissolved in oil or implantation of constant release capsules that generate supraphysiological and/or constantly elevated T concentrations. The minimum daily concentration of T necessary to maintain and restore MSB when T is delivered as a discrete short pulse remains unspecified; nor is it known whether infrequent T pulses in the physiological range sustain MSB. To address these questions, we varied T injection concentrations and frequencies in castrated, sexually-experienced Syrian hamsters. All males injected daily with an aqueous vehicle failed to display the ejaculatory reflex 5 weeks after castration. Once daily 15 microg subcutaneous T injections both maintained and restored MSB, whereas once daily 5 microg T injections resulted in fewer males ejaculating and longer ejaculation latencies. Substantially higher T doses were required to restore MSB in previous studies when T was administered in an oil vehicle. 50 microg T maintained MSB in most hamsters injected once every 4 or 7 days, despite long intervals between injections during which circulating T was undetectable or well below physiological concentrations. Some T regimens that maintained MSB were associated with subnormal seminal vesicle and ventral prostate weights. The demonstration that relatively brief, infrequent elevations of T are sufficient to support MSB provides a useful model to assess the neuroendocrine basis of MSB and raises the possibility that infrequent low dose androgen replacement protocols may restore sex behavior to hypogonadal men without inducing some of the negative side-effects associated with more frequent, higher dose treatments.

journal_name

Horm Behav

journal_title

Hormones and behavior

authors

Piekarski DJ,Routman DM,Schoomer EE,Driscoll JR,Park JH,Butler MP,Zucker I

doi

10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.10.003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-01-01 00:00:00

pages

182-9

issue

eissn

0018-506X

issn

1095-6867

pii

S0018-506X(08)00292-4

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Infrequent low dose testosterone treatment maintains male sexual behavior in Syrian hamsters.