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12 - Sex Hormones Flashcards

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1
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What are the primary sites of production of sex hormones?

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  • Ovaries, testes
  • Placenta
  • Adrenal gland
  • Prostate
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What are the 3 main types of sex hormones? Which are female and which are male?

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  • Estrogens (female)
  • Progestagens (female)
  • Androgens (male)
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What are synthetic analogs of progestagens called?

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Progestins

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What is the function of hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin)?

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Sustains luteal phase during pregnancy by stimulating corpus luteum to release progesterone and estradiol, which inhibit the next round of ovulation and menstruation

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When is estradiol released? What do it do?

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  • Released by mature follicle to create proliferative endometrium
  • Triggers release of LH
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What is the function of luteinizing hormone?

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Triggers ovulation and initiates formation of corpus luteum

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What is the function of progesterone?

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  • Stimulates and maintains secretory endometrium
  • When levels subside, menstruation begins
  • Stimulates thickening of cervical secretions to decrease sperm penetration
  • Stimulates breast lactation
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Where is estradiol production the highest?

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Ovaries

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Is estradiol production higher during menstruation or during pregnancy? Why?

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1000x more during pregnancy to inhibit ovulation

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What effect does estradiol have on calcium?

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Inhibits Ca loss from bones by reducing production of bone resorption stimulating protein

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Where is progesterone production the highest?

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Ovaries

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Is progesterone production higher during menstruation or during pregnancy?

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Pregnancy

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Where is production of testosterone the highest?

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Testes

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What is testosterone converted into and by what?

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Converted in 5 alpha-DHT by 5 alpha-reductase

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What is the function of testosterone?

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  • Androgenic effects = dev’t of male sex characteristics

- Anabolic effects = growth of skeletal and cardiac muscle, bone, and RBC’s

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What is testosterones effect in women?

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  • Libido
  • Mood
  • Muscle mass and bone density
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Where is production of 5 alpha-DHT (dihydrotestosterone) the highest?

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Scalp (hair follicles) and prostate

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Is testosterone or 5 alpha-DHT more potent?

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5 alpha-DHT

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What can high levels of 5 alpha-DHT lead to?

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Prostate hypertrophy

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What is needed on CYP19 aromatase for it to be able to aromatize?

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Methyl group on A ring

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What is produced when testosterone is aromatized?

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Estradiol

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Are the reduction products of progesterone active or inactive?

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Inactive

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What are progesterones primarily converted into?

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Corticosterone and hydrocortisone

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What is required for a metabolite of testosterone to be active?

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  • Trans/trans/trans backbone configuration

- Configuration at C-17 must have OH in beta and H in alpha positions

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What are estrogenic drugs used for?

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  • Hormone replacement therapy
  • Birth control
  • Certain types of cancer therapy
26
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What are the 3 structural classes of estrogens?

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  • Steroidal
  • Phytoestrogens
  • Non-steroidal (diethylstilbestrol and derivatives)
27
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Which estrogens are useful for hormone replacement therapy?

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Conjugated

28
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What do phytoestrogens contain?

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Flavone and isoflavone rings

29
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What is important about diethylstilbestrol? What it is indicated for?

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  • One of the most active non-steroidal estrogens

- Indicated for use in therapy for prostate cancer b/c it can suppress testosterone production

30
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What are indications for anti-estrogenic drugs?

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Treatment of breast or uterine tumours w/ estrogen receptors

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Do anti-estrogenic drugs have steroidal structures? Why?

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No, have non-steroidal structures b/c steroidal structures are too potent for therapy

32
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Do SERMs have agonist or antagonist activity?

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Both

33
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Which structural feature of anastrozole is required to bind to the aromatase enzyme?

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1,2-4-triazole

34
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What type of enzyme is the aromatase enzyme?

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CYP isozyme

35
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What is the most common use of progestins?

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Birth control (alone or in combination w/ estrogen)

36
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What are the 2 frequently used progestins?

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  • Medroxyprogesterone acetate

- Norethindrone

37
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How do estrogen and progestin work as contraceptives?

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  • By suppressing production of GnRH, LH, and FSH through a negative feedback mechanism => suppression of ovulation
  • Progestins also thicken cervical mucous to reduce sperm penetration
38
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All androgens have both ____ and ____ properties

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Androgenic and anabolic

39
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Which hormones are generally used for androgen replacement therapy?

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Testosterone derivatives w/ enhanced metabolic stability (rather than testosterone precursors)

40
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What is the preferred route of administration for testosterone? Why?

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Transdermal (patch or topical gel) b/c oral testosterone is rapidly metabolized during first pass phase

41
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What is important about 17 alpha-alkynyl derivatives of testosterone?

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Usually give more progestogenic action than androgenic action

42
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What is important about 17 alpha-alkyl derivatives of testosterone?

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Good for oral administration b/c have higher metabolic stability

43
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What is important about 17 beta-ester derivatives of testosterone?

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Good for IM/SC/transdermal administration b/c give “slow release” effects

44
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Which drugs are used for endometriosis?

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Drugs that inhibit endometrial growth, like testosterone derivative danazol

45
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What is the mechanism of danazol?

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  • Exact mechanism unknown
  • Thought to act on pituitary gland and reduce release of FSH and LH, thereby reducing production of estrogen and progesterone
46
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What are indications for anti-androgens?

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  • Hyperandrogenism in males and females

- Benign and cancerous prostate conditions responsive to androgens

47
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What are sx of hyperandrogenism?

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  • Loss of scalp hair but increased growth of body hair
  • Acute acne
  • Premature menopause
48
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What is finasteride? What is its indication?

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  • Selective tight-binding 5 alpha-reductase inhibit

- Used in tx of benign prostatic hyperplasia

49
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What do androgen precursors cause?

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Augmented biosynthesis of both active androgens and estradiol in vivo

50
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How can testosterone abuse be tested?

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  • Will lead to a high ratio of testosterone glucuronide to epitestosterone glucuronide
  • Ratio greater than 4:1 = abuse
51
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What are some adverse effects of abusing anabolic steroids?

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  • Premature stunted growth through early skeletal maturation (only in growing adolescents)
  • Reduced sperm count/shrinking of testes
  • Prostate hypertrophy
52
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What are some methods to mask steroid detection in urine?

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  • Uricosuric agents (excretion of uric acid in urine)
  • Diuretics
  • Epitestosterone
  • Saline injections
53
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What are some drugs that structurally resemble estrogens, progestagens, and androgens?

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  • Estrogenic drugs
  • Anti-estrogenic drugs (non-steroidal and aromatase inhibitors)
  • Progestins
  • Androgenic drugs
  • Anti-androgenic drugs
  • Muscle building and steroids abuse
54
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What do dehydrogenase enzymes do to a steroid?

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Convert OH to =O and vice versa

55
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What do ketoreductase enzymes do to a steroid?

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Convert OH to =O

56
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What do hydroxylase enzymes do to a steroid?

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Convert a carbon w/ 2 hydrogen groups to a carbon w/ an OH group

57
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What do isomerase enzymes do to a steroid?

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Move a double bond

58
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What do reductase enzymes do to a steroid?

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Remove a double bond

59
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What do aromatase enzymes do to a steroid?

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Remove methyl group and add double bonds to a ring to make it aromatic

60
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What does a conjugation enzyme do to a steroid?

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Changes OH to O-R

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