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Table 2 Hormone and hormone derivative levels [ng/ml] in seminal plasma

From: Decreased levels of genuine large free hCG alpha in men presenting with abnormal semen analysis

Diagnosis

Age [years]

Sperm counts

hCGα

hCGβ

hCGβcf

hCG

hGH

hPL

hPRL

 

range

mean

range

mean

range

mean

range

mean

range

mean

range

mean

range

mean

range

mean

range

mean

N (n = 16)

31-57

37.1 ± 1.7

25.0-87.5

53.7 ± 5.1

726-8754

2753 ± 533

0.23-4.16

2.05 ± 0.29

<0.005-0.010

0.007 ± 0.001

0.016-0.578

0.203 ± 0.040

0.004-0.090

0.023 ± 0.006

<0.005-0.738

0.095 ± 0.072

4.00 ± 16.11

7.82 ± 0.86

Path (n = 29)

21-48

34.1 ± 1.5

0-109.9

n.d.

86-4400

1346 ± 191

0.18-10.00

2.22 ± 0.38

<0.005-0.140

n.d.

<0.02-2.260

0.279 ± 0.101

<0.005-0.086

0.028 ± 0.005

<0.005-1.760

n.d.

2.92-17.57

7.54 ± 0.78

AS (n = 3)

25-42

34.0 ± 4.9

35.6-109.9

77.2 ± 21.9

110-1500

820 ± 402

0.36-10.0

5.29 ± 2.78

<0.05-0.14

n.d.

0.060-2.260

0.840 ± 0.711

<0.005-0.030

n.d.

0.016-1.760

0.629 ± 0.566

n.t./7.50

n.d.

T (n = 1)

42

n.d.

109.3

n.d.

2500

n.d.

2.8

n.d.

<0.005

n.d.

0.82

n.d.

0.007

n.d.

0.21

n.d.

n.d.

n.d.

AST (n = 2)

30

n.d.

n.d/19.5

n.d.

1100-4400

n.d.

2.10-2.16

n.d.

<0.005-0.024

n.d.

0.5-1.3

n.d.

n.t./0.006

n.d.

<0.005-0.160

n.d.

n.t./7.38

n.d.

O (n = 2)

23-45

n.d.

13.1-16.1

n.d.

669-1500

n.d.

0.40-1.02

n.d.

<0.005/n.d.

n.d.

<0.02-0.041

n.d.

<0.005-0.050

n.d.

0.007

n.d.

n.t./3.87

n.d.

OAT (n = 7)

22-36

29.0 ± 1.9

0.6-6.2

3.7 ± 0.8

610-1938

1107 ± 176

0.56-2.00

1.38 ± 0.24

<0.005

<0.005

<0.02-0.234

0.102 ± 0.037

<0.005-0.049

0.029 ± 0.007

<0.02

<0.02

3.34-8.09

5.44 ± 1.16

C (n = 8)

21-45

34.5 ± 2.7

<0.3-0.3

n.d.

192-3661

1522 ± 428

0.70-3.39

2.04 ± 0.41

<0.005

<0.005

<0.02-0.420

0.122 ± 0.016

<0.005-0.086

0.039 ± 0.012

<0.02

<0.02

2.92-17.57

8.85 ± 1.73

A (n = 6)

31-48

39.8 ± 3.3

0

0

86-2630

1108 ± 394

0.18-5.21

2.35 ± 0.82

<0.005

<0.005

<0.02-0.120

0.066 ± 0.018

0.003-0.037

0.016 ± 0.006

<0.02

<0.02

7.00-8.86

7.88 ± 0.34

  1. Patients were grouped according to spermiogram (WHO 1995): normozoospermia (N), abnormal semen analysis results (Path), asthenozoospermia (AS), teratozoospermia (T), asthenoteratozoospermia (AST), oligozoospermia (O), oligoastheoteratozoospermia (OAT), cryptozoospermia (C), azoospermia
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