Korean J Anesthesiol.  1978 Dec;11(4):357-360.

Serum Testosterone in Man during Thalamonal Anesthesia and Surgery

• Park SJ
• Chon SU

Abstract

The relationship between the Ledig cell of testis and the tropic hormones of the anterior pituitary gland has been ineddquately expiored in man because of methodological difficulties levels in human serum. As testosterone in one of the most important anabolie hormones, it would therefore serve as an index to hormanal response to stress in man. This study was performed to inveatigate the effect of thalamonal-N2O-O2 anesthesia and surgery on human sex hormone by radioimmunoassay method. Measured serum testosterone lexels in the preanesthetic period, 60 minutes after anesthesia and surgery, and at full rectxary from anesthesia were 5.64ng/ml 4.40ng/ml and 5.02ng/ml, respectively.

MeSH Terms

Anesthesia*
Humans
Methods
Pituitary Gland, Anterior
Radioimmunoassay
Testis
Testosterone*
Testosterone