A male professional athlete who has admitted to using anabolic steroids to help

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A male professional athlete who has admitted to using anabolic steroids to help him recover from an injury more quickly is concerned that the use of this performance-enhancing drug could cause infertility. Note that the ingested drug and the testosterone the body normally makes are indistinguishable to the body. Which of the following statements describes how the hormonal regulation of testicular function and the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (HPG axis) would be affected by the athlete’s use of anabolic steroids?

a. Anabolic steroid use could decrease testosterone production by the interstitial cells by interfering with the release of luteinizing hormone from the anterior pituitary gland.

Explanation / Answer

There is loss of feedback mechanism in the HPG axis of that athlete due the structural an chemical similarity of the anabolic steroid intaken by that person to the normal testosterone produced in the body which leads to infertility..

A)anabolic steroid could decrease the testosterone production by the interstitial cell by interfering with release of LH from anterior pituitary gland .

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