Table 2.
Steroid | % of Steroids |
TART/NAa |
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Patient Serum | TART Basal | TART ACTHb | NA Basal | NA ACTH | Basal | ACTH | |
Progesterone | 1.4 | 6 | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 8.7 | 11.7 |
17OHP | 78 | 64 | 75 | 8.7 | 9.8 | 8.8 | 9.2 |
16OHP | 6.6 | 7.7 | 8.25 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 6.6 | 6.6 |
11OHP | 0.2 | 4 | 1 | 0.08 | 0.02 | 58.5 | 65 |
21dF | 7 | 15.5 | 7 | 0.46 | 0.3 | 41 | 30 |
11-Deoxycorticosterone | 0.2 | 0.14 | 0.05 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.07 | 0.04 |
11-Deoxycortisol | 0.45 | 0.45 | 0.24 | 25 | 14.1 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
Corticosterone | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 3.4 | 5.65 | 0.2 | 0.17 |
Cortisol | 4.6 | 1.75 | 2.6 | 41.5 | 64.5 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Cortisone | 1.9 | 0.15 | 0.06 | 16 | 2.3 | 0.01 | 0.03 |
Abbreviation: NA, normal adrenal. Medium was collected under basal conditions and after ACTH (10 nmol/L) stimulation. Ratios were calculated by dividing the means of steroid concentrations from three biological replicates for each condition.
TART cells from a patient with 21OHD/NA cells. Patient serum is from the same patient before TART excision surgery.
Under these conditions, we estimate a total steroid production rate of approximately 100 ng/10 000 cells/24 h.