INTESTINAL METABOLISM OF ESTROGENS
INTESTINAL METABOLISM OF ESTROGENS
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DOI:
10.1210/jcem-43-3-497
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
TIKKANEN, MJ
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ADLERCREUTZ, H;MARTIN, F;TIKKANEN, MJ
Estrogen metabolism in the human intestine was studied in 2 ways. Firstly, by measuring the excretion of 12 estrogens in pooled human late pregnancy feces before and during the administration of ampicillin (2 g/day). Secondly, by administering 5.4 and 20 mg of 16.alpha.-hydroxyestrone orally to 2 postmenopausal women and analyzing the estrogens in simultaneously drawn portal and peripheral venous blood samples at time intervals from 0-150 min after steriod administraiton. The majority of the estrogens in normal pregnancy feces were unconjugated. The amounts of estradiol, estrone and 16-epiestriol excreted, relative to the principal estrogen estriol, were greater than in pregnancy bile or urine and 16.alpha.-hydroxyestrone, an important biliary estrogen, was only present in trace amounts. Considerable quantities of 15.alpha.-hydroxyestradiol-17.beta. were found. Ampicillin administration, which decreases intestinal bacterial steriod metabolism, caused a huge increase in the fecal excretion of conjugated estrogens. It caused very striking increases in the excretion of both unconjugated and conjugated, estriol, 15.alpha.-hydroxyestrone, 15.alpha.-hydroxyestradiol and 2-methoxyestrone. These findings emphasize the active role played by the intestinal microflora in estrogen metabolism under normal conditions. Administration of 16.alpha.-hydroxyestrone increased portal venous unconjugated and conjugated 16.alpha.-hydroxyestrone, 16-oxoestradiol-17.beta., 15.alpha.-hydroxyestrone, 16-epiestriol and conjugated estriol levels. The most significant finding in both subjects was the large increase in portal venous unconjugated 15.alpha.-hydroxyestrone. The human intestine (or intestinal contents) probably has the ability to carry out the transformation, 16.alpha.-hydroxyestrone .fwdarw. 15.alpha.-hydroxyestrone. Increases in the same estrogens were found in peripheral plasma, with the increase in conjugated estriol occurring in peripheral blood before it was seen in portal blood. The largest elevations in peripheral plasma values were seen in unconjugated estriol and conjugated 16.alpha.-hydroxyestrone in the subject who received the 20 mg dose and in unconjugated 16.alpha.-hydroxyestrone and 16-oxoestradiol-17.beta. in the subject who had the 5.4 mg dose. The intestinal and enterohepatic metabolsim of estrogens is discussed in relation to these findings.