THE EXCRETION OF PREGNANEDIOL BY OVARIECTOMIZED ADRENALECTOMIZED WOMEN

in Journal of Endocrinology
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BETTY J. ALLEN
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D. G. CHALMERS
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W. H. H. MERIVALE
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SUMMARY

Two women, who had undergone bilateral ovariectomy and adrenalectomy for carcinomatosis secondary to primary growths of the breast, received 100 mg progesterone in arachis oil intramuscularly for 3 days. Estimations of pregnane-3(α):20(α)-diol, total 17-ketosteroids and dehydroisoandrosterone and its derivatives were made on 24 hr urine specimens collected for a control period, while the patients received progesterone, and for 3 days afterwards. Both patients excreted increased amounts of pregnane-3(α):20(α)-diol and one excreted increased amounts of 17-ketosteroids and dehydroisoandrosterone and its derivatives.

 

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