Abstract
To evaluate androgen production and metabolism during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. Five women, aged 33-42, were studied. All participants were undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist and human menopausal gonadotropins. Serum estradiol, estrone, androstenedione, testosterone, 3 alpha-androstanediol glucuronide, and sex hormone-binding globulin levels were measured at 6 time points during the cycle. The levels of all steroids increased significantly from baseline during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. Mean total testosterone levels increased from 0.29 +/- 0.05 ng/mL to 0.58 +/- 0.07 ng/mL after gonadotropin stimulation. Sex hormone-binding gonadotropin levels increased from 50 +/- 16 nM to 73 +/- 12 nM after gonadotropin stimulation. Estrone/androstenedione and estradiol/testosterone ratios, reflecting the aromatase pathway, increased whereas 3 alpha-androstanediol glucuronide/androstenedione and 3 alpha-androstanediol glucuronide/testosterone ratios, reflecting 5 alpha-reductase activity, decreased. Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation with human menopausal gonadotropins results in increased serum testosterone and androstenedione levels. Whereas there is an enhancement in androgen metabolism by aromatase, 5 alpha-reductase activity with regard to androgen metabolism is diminished.
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