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phsyiohorror phsyiohorror
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7 years ago
I know that if both testes are removed, the fetus would become a female, but what happens if the fetus is given testosterone everyday? Does it develop male reproductive system instead?
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7 years ago
How is it possible to remove the testes of a fetus?
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7 years ago
during an experiment of a rabbit for example. Similar to the one Alfred Jost did but instead of just removing the testes testosterone was added as well.
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Androgen secretion by the fetal testis is essential for male phenotypic differentiation. In the human fetus testosterone formation is initiated soon after the differentiation of the testis (approximately 8 weeks of gestation), and the maximal testosterone content in fetal testes is achieved between 10 and 15 weeks of fetal life. The testosterone content of the fetal testis declines at the beginning of the third trimester and remains low until after birth. In an effort to understand the regulation of the onset of testosterone formation in the human fetal testis we measured adenylate cyclase activity in response to hCG stimulation in homogenates of fetal testes obtained from first and second trimester human abortuses. Basal adenylate cyclase activity was 50 pmol/mg protein.min at 10 weeks gestation, the peak activity was 137 pmol/mg protein.min at 12 weeks gestation, and activity declined thereafter to 8 pmol/mg protein.min by 16 weeks gestation. NaF-stimulated (0.6 mmol/L) and forskolin-stimulated (50 mumol/L) activities were 4- to 8-fold greater than basal adenylate cyclase activities. The maximal forskolin-stimulated activity occurred at 11 weeks (803 pmol/mg protein.min), and it fell to 35 pmol/mg protein.min by 17 weeks gestation. In contrast, hCG-stimulated (1 mumol/L) adenylate cyclase activity was only slightly greater than basal rates at all ages examined. In addition, hCG did not stimulate baseline testosterone formation in minces of testes obtained between 12 and 18 weeks of gestation. These findings suggest that the onset of testosterone formation in human fetal testes may be independent of gonadotropin control.
Source  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2732296
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