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Journal of Andrology, Vol 9, Issue 4 231-233, Copyright © 1988 by The American Society of Andrology

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Effects of chronic sulpiride-induced hyperprolactinemia on plasma testosterone and its responses to hCG in normal men

F. Oseko, N. Oka, H. Furuya and K. Morikawa
Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University, Japan.

To elucidate the effects of sulpiride-induced (300 mg daily) long-term (64 days) hyperprolactinemia on basal and hCG-stimulated plasma testosterone (T), hCG was given to five normal men five times at 2-week intervals (before sulpiride administration and at 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks). Mean integrated hCG responses of plasma T did not change significantly as compared with baseline. However, mean (+/- SEM) basal plasma levels of T decreased significantly (P less than 0.05) from 1011 +/- 148 ng/dl to 852 +/- 13 at 2 weeks, 520 +/- 53 at 4 weeks, 572 +/- 137 at 6 weeks and 554 +/- 140 at 8 weeks. These results suggest that sulpiride-induced hyperprolactinemia (73.8 ng/ml, the average of mean values obtained at 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks) for 64 days does not suppress secretion of T in response to hCG in spite of a decrease in basal plasma T concentrations. It is unlikely that the low concentrations of plasma T are due to direct effects of hyperprolactinemia on the testis.




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