Evidence Hub

Testosterone replacement increases vasodilatory reserve in androgen-deficient female rats

Cooper BC, Gokina NI, Osol G

Fertility and sterility, 2007

Abstract

Testosterone replacement leads to increased coronary pressure-induced tone and vasodilatory reserve in oophorectomized rats. The mechanisms involve changes in endothelial nitric-oxide modulation of smooth-muscle constriction and are not a result of the peripheral conversion of T to estrogen.

Read the paper

Related studies

Go deeper in Evidence Hub

Evidence Hub adds a study data sheet (design, sample size, evidence level, key numbers), an AI summary and a chat grounded in the paper's text.

Open this study Sign up free