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<br>These results are consistent with those from shorter-term transdermal DHTstudies (60, 103). Accordingly, concentrations of DHT in skin to which DHT has beenapplied are extremely high during the period when DHT is absorbed into the bloodstream. Skin possesses all of the requisite steroidogenic capabilities to ensure localhomeostatic control of steroid hormones, suggesting an important paracrine role for T,DHT, [https://archea.dev/lienlavigne212](https://archea.dev/lienlavigne212) and estradiol within the skin, the function of which is poorly understood (143). Butit seems unlikely that this lowering of HDL is predominantly due to DHT but instead toT-mediated effects in liver secondary to portal absorption of enterocytic-derived T fromthe enzymatic hydrolysis of TU by nonspecific esterases (142). In these studies, there were nodifferences in lipid response between men treated with T or those treated with T plusfinasteride or dutasteride (129, 130). Clearly, the DHT levels observed in the literature in response to TRT are many fold lessthan has been observed when DHT gel has been used in clinical trials. In these studies, [gitea.redaktion.titanic-magazin.de](https://gitea.redaktion.titanic-magazin.de/cecil16c569869) the effect of T alone on hematocrit was compared with Tplus a 5AR-I over periods of exposure ranging from 20 weeks to 36 months.
Subsequent conjugation by uridine 5′-diphospho (UDP)-glucuronyltransferase (UGT)is the major pathway for urinary and biliary elimination of DHT metabolites and, locally,is the principal irreversible step to protect tissues from high concentrations of thispotent androgen (Fig. 1). For example, when DHT or estradiol were exposed to unbound SHBG in a humanprostate cancer cell line (namely, LNCaP), rapid increases in intracellular cAMP wereobserved. Compared with T, DHT has roughlya fivefold greater binding affinity to SHBG (30).Binding of circulating DHT to SHBG is highest in young males 0.5 to 2 years of age (90%)and thereafter declines to about 70% at age 15 and to 40% in young adult men (age 18)(31). Like T, circulating DHT is principally bound to sex hormone–binding globulin (SHBG) and,more weakly, to albumin. Thus, local tissue control of androgenlevels in conjunction with numerous other factors drive AR-induced transcriptionalresponses. Organ differences in receptorbinding of T and DHT result, in part, from relative differences in intracellularconcentrations of these androgens rather than from differences in receptor affinitiesalone (22). As discussed later, these alternate synthetic pathways, which arenot influenced by circulating DHT, may have particular clinical significance withinprostate tissue.
It is possible, however, that the start of puberty may be delayed in girls with too little dihydrotestosterone and the amount of pubic and body hair present in adult females may also be reduced. Much less is known about the importance of dihydrotestosterone in women, but it is known to cause much of the body and pubic hair growth seen in girls after puberty and may help to determine the age at which girls begin puberty. For this reason, assessing circulating levels of DHT in women withandrogenic alopecia or female pattern baldness would appear to be of little diagnostic valuein clinical practice. In hirsute women, it is well established that increased type I 5-AR in thehair follicle acts on T to produce high local concentrations of DHT that transforms vellushair (nonpigmented, soft, and [jobsbotswana.info](https://jobsbotswana.info/companies/is-aromatization-of-testosterone-to-estradiol-required-for-inhibition-of-luteinizing-hormone-secretion-in-men/) short) to terminal hair (pigmented, course, and long) inandrogenic-sensitive areas of the skin (235). When the backdoor pathway was suppressed by asteroidogenic enzyme blocker, namely, abiraterone, prolonged survival was observed.Collectively, these data support the notion that circulating T and DHT are likely oflittle relevance with respect to development of prostate cancer compared withintraprostatic levels of these two hormones.
Endocrinological tests for T/DHT ratios can be difficult to interpret since the normal ratio level varies according to age and severity of 5αR2 activity impairment. Karyotyping and SRY gene analysis on samples from peripheral leukocytes will exclude sex chromosome abnormalities. The objective clinical evaluation of dysmorphic features to diagnose 46,XY DSD for apparent female genitalia includes enlarged clitoris, posterior labial fusion, and inguinal/labial mass. Mutations result in a spectrum of activity effects ranging from destabilizing 5αR2 to complete loss of activity.
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