Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The pathogenesis of idiopathic hirsutism (IH) is not clear. On the other hand, human skin possesses all the enzymes necessary for androgen synthesis and catabolism indicating that it is an independent peripheral endocrine organ. Thus, in the present study we aimed to investigate the mRNA expression of aromatase enzyme and the other enzymes having functional roles in the steroidogenic pathway, in freshly obtained skin tissue from subumblical skin and the arm of wo...