Arecoline inhibits pineal-testis function in experimentally induced hypothyroid rats.
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...PTU-induced hypothyroidism significantly decreased serum levels of both T3 and T4 while, increased TSH level [36]....
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...The colour development was stopped with addition of the stop solution (dilute sulphuric acid) and the absorbance was measured by ELISA Reader (Qualigen Plate Reader PR601, UK) at 450 nm....
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...Serum testosterone concentration was assayed by ELISA on the principle of competitive binding between testosterone in the test specimen and testosterone-HRP conjugate for a constant amount of rabbit anti-testosterone....
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...Serum testosterone level was assayed by ELISA (Chen et al. 1991) using the pathozyme testosterone kit (Product code OD497) of OMEGA, UK....
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...Hypothyroidism decreases testosterone and cAMP productions in rat testis under the response of LH by decreasing 3b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (HSD) and 17b-HSD activities (Antony et al. 1995)....
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...Earlier Antony et al. (1995) reported that Leydig cell activity is suppressed in vivo and in vitro in hypothyroid rats....
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...…Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, 35, B. C. ROAD, Kolkata 700019, India 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group follicle stimulating hormone receptor (FSH-R), and decrease of luteinising hormone receptor (LH-R) and androgen binding protein (Rao et al. 2003)....
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...PTU is known to act by inhibition of tetraiodothyronin5-deiodinase type I and type 2, of which type 2 is predominant in human osterblasts (Morimura et al. 2005)....
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...PTU is also effective even in very low dose (5mg/100gm body wt) and inhibited thyroxine-5 -deiodinase activity in rat kidney (Leonard and Rosenberg 1978) and in human osteoblast cells (Morimura et al. 2005)....
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