Mammary tumors and serum hormones in the bitch treated with medroxyprogesterone acetate or progesterone for four years

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6162791· OSTI ID:6162791

Frank, D. W.; Kirton, K. T.; Murchison, T. E.; Quinlan, W. J.; Coleman, M. E.; Gilbertson, T. J.; Feenstra, E. S.; Kimball, F. A.

After four years of a long term contraceptive steroid safety study, the incidence and the histologic type of mammary dysplasia produced is similar in beagles treated with medroxyprogesterone acetate (medroxyprogesterone) or progesterone. Serum insulin, thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), triiodothyronine, growth hormone, prolactin, 17..beta..-estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol were determined by radioimmunoassay on samples collected after 45 months of treatment. Serum growth hormone and insulin concentrations were elevated in a dose related manner in both treatment groups. Triiodothyronine, cortisol, and estradiol-17..beta.. (medroxyprogesterone only) were lowered. TSH and prolactin concentrations were not changed. Pituitary--gonadal hormone interaction in the pathogenesis of mammary neoplasia of the dog is discussed. Prolonged treatment of the beagle with massive doses of progesterone or medroxyprogesterone results in a dose related incidence of mammary modules.

• Research Organization: Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, MI (USA); Dawson Research Corp., Orlando, FL (USA); Rochester Univ., NY (USA). Dept. of Radiation Biology and Biophysics
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-02-3490
• OSTI ID: 6162791
• Report Number(s): UR-3490-1550
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ADRENAL HORMONES
ANIMALS
BEAGLES
BLOOD SERUM
BODY
CARCINOGENESIS
CHRONIC EXPOSURE
CORTICOSTEROIDS
DATA
DATA FORMS
DISEASES
DOGS
DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS
ESTRADIOL
ESTRANES
ESTROGENS
ETIOLOGY
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FEMALES
GLANDS
GLUCOCORTICOIDS
GONADOTROPINS
HORMONES
HYDROCORTISONE
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
HYDROXYPREGNENONE
INFORMATION
INJECTION
INSULIN
INTAKE
INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION
ISOLATED VALUES
ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS
KETONES
LTH
MAMMALS
MAMMARY GLANDS
NEOPLASMS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANS
PATHOGENESIS
PEPTIDE HORMONES
PITUITARY HORMONES
PREGNANES
PROGESTERONE
RADIOASSAY
RADIOIMMUNOASSAY
STEROID HORMONES
STEROIDS
STH
THYROID HORMONES
TRACER TECHNIQUES
TRIIODOTHYRONINE
TSH
VERTEBRATES