[The clinico-biological aspects of transsexualism]. / Nekotorye kliniko-biologicheskie aspekty transseksualizma.

A complex constitutional-endocrinological investigation of persons of both sexes with clinical diagnosis of transsexualism (TS) has been held. On the basis of original data some peculiarities of somato- and cerebrotypes of transsexuals have been revealed, the formation of these peculiarities is significantly connected with the action of sexual hormones. A disturbance in ratio of male and female sexual hormones in the direction of predominance of the hormones corresponding to the patient's sexual autoidentification despite their biological sex has been marked. It gives possibility to consider that TS pathogenesis is undoubtedly connected with inborn pathology of hormonal homeostasis. The results of multi-disciplinary approach to study of TS are being discussed. An assumption about the role of disturbance in the system of "hormones-brain" in the TS origin is given.

[Gonadal endocrine function indicators during initial stages of postnatal ontogenesis of the female sable]. / Pokazateli endokrinnoi funktsii gonal no nachal nykh etapakh postnatal nogo ontogeneza samok sobolei.

By means of radioimmunoassay, 17 beta-estradiol-, androgen- (testosterone and dihydrotestosterone) and progesterone contents were determined in the peripheral blood of the female sables, aged 2 to 27 months, during postnatal ontogenesis initial stage. Under the action of seasonal factors steroid level was sharply decreased in the animals of the all ages within the autumnal period, whereas the gonadal function activation lowered over a period of February and March, when "the spring animation" of wild stables is seen. An increase in the sex hormone level was more pronounced in females over one year old. The compared concentrations of hormones, studied in the 5-months' females (the growth stopping). 14 to 17-months' animals (the 1st year reproductive period) and 27-months' stables (the 2nd year reproductive period) were close to those of 17 beta-estradiol and progesterone contents in fertile animals. It is suggested that the sexual system of the 5-months' females is ready for the reproductive processes but their secretory activity is sharply reduced, probably under the seasonal factor influence.

[Multicomponent system of estrogen-binding proteins of liver cytosol: species differences in rats, mice and guinea pigs]. / Mnogokomponentnaia sistema éstrogensviazyvaiushchikh belkov tsitozolia pecheni: vidovye razlichiia u krys, myshei i morskikh svinok.

Estradiol (E2) binding proteins from the liver cytoso-of mature male and female rats, mice, guinea pigs, and rabbits were investigated by gel filtration on Sepharose 6B columns. Components with Stokes radii (a) 6--7 and 2.5 nm which form specific stable complexes with E2 were found in female rats and female and male mice. The liver of male rats and male and female guinea pigs contain specific E2-binding proteins with a-about 6--7, 2.5 and less than 2.0 nm. E2 complexes with components having a values 6--7 and less than 2.0 nm relatively stable, whereas E2 complex with a component possessing a value about 2.5 nm is capable of dissociating completely within 45 minutes. It is suggested that at least some of the components of the discovered heterogenic populations of E2-binding proteins could participate in the estrogen signal reception by the liver.