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Effect of Gonadotropins and Androgens on Fructose and Citric Acid of Seminal Fluid

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The Human Testis

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Abstract

The existence of a reducing sugar in human seminal fluid was reported many years ago. It was then characterized as glucose (1–4). Afterwards the substance was shown to be fructose (5); later on, Mann (6) identified it as D(-) fructose. These findings were confirmed by others (7). Many papers have been devoted to the occurrence of this substance in both human and animal seminal plasma (8–12); as well as to the site of its origin in different species including man (13–17). In the human species the seminal vesicles are the main source of its production. Moreover, the relationship between androgens and seminal fructose has been established (18), so that the levels of this sugar have been used as indicators of androgenic function (13,19).

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    C. Alvin Paulsen M. D. (Professor of Medicine) (Professor of Medicine)

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Lavieri, J.C., Calamera, J.C. (1970). Effect of Gonadotropins and Androgens on Fructose and Citric Acid of Seminal Fluid. In: Rosemberg, E., Paulsen, C.A. (eds) The Human Testis. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9008-8_37

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