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Table 4 The pituitary-gonadal axis (on day 29th) in the three experimental groups.

From: Little effects of Insulin-like Growth Factor-I on testicular atrophy induced by hypoxia

 

HealthyControl rats(CO, n = 10)

Untreated rats with testicular atrophy(AT, n = 10)

IGF-I-treatedAT rats(AT+IGF, n = 10)

Total Testosterone (ng/dL)

88.10 ± 23.66

59.68 ± 19.70*

71.17 ± 15.86#

Free Testosterone (pg/mL)

7.35 ± 2.91

0.84 ± 0.67***

2.88 ± 1.45** &

Estradiol (pg/mL)

8.20 ± 1.84

9.86 ± 3.35

9.93 ± 1.37

Estradiol/Total Testosterone

10.33 ± 7.11

61.47 ± 10.77

17.78 ± 13.92

LH (ng/mL)

2.16 ± 0.15

2.73 ± 0.36

3.28 ± 0.51*

FSH (ng/mL)

12.86 ± 1.20

17.80 ± 0.82*

20.58 ± 1.13** &

  1. m ± SEM; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 CO vs other groups; &p < 0.05 AT vs AT+IGF; #p = 0.06 AT vs AT+IGF
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