Hormonal factors

HORMONAL FACTORS

  • Testicular degeneration and atrophy of the testes occurs in the dog and rarely in other animals due to tumors of the anterior pituitary gland or hypothalamus interfering with the production of gonadotropic hormones. This is called Dystrophia Adiposagenitalis Syndrome in dogs.
  • Excessive estrogenic hormone produced by sertoli cell tumors and testosterone, and rarely estrogens, produced by Leydig cell tumors may suppress FSH production and cause testicular degeneration
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