For some cancers of interest, not only may breeds vary in predisposition but also the possibility of interactions between gender, gonadal hormone influences, and timing
of gonadal hormone alteration should be taken into account in selecting the model and in investigating causal factors to be explored.
While the study set out to estimate incidence rates of each disease related to age at neutering, patients were diagnosed at different ages and with differing durations of the disease as well as varying years at risk from the effects
of gonadal hormone removal.
These subgroups included two biologically distinct groups representing the extremes
of gonadal hormone exposure (i.e., dogs neutered before skeletal maturation at < 1 year of age and dogs that remained sexually intact for their entire lifetime).
We analyzed risk for bone sarcoma using months
of gonadal hormone exposure as a continuous variable.
Because the database used in that study provided no information on age at gonadectomy, the study could not evaluate bone sarcoma risk in terms of duration
of gonadal hormone exposure.
Lifetime gonadal hormone exposure of each dog was expressed in terms of total months
of gonadal hormone exposure (i.e., number of months sexually intact).
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of gonadal hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen, change behavior, motivation and perception during puberty.
This is in agreement with findings in juvenile male and female rats with low levels
of gonadal hormones.
Given the importance
of gonadal hormones in growth and development, this cultural contrast invites an analysis of the multiple organ systems that may be adversely affected by neutering.
The striking effect of neutering in female Golden Retrievers compared to male and female Labradors, and male Golden Retrievers, suggests that for this gender and breed the presence
of gonadal hormones has a protective effect against cancers over most years of the dog's life.
Because neutering can be expected to disrupt the normal physiological developmental role
of gonadal hormones on multiple organ systems, one can envision the occurrence of disease syndromes, including those listed below, to possibly be affected by neutering as a function of gender and the age at which neutering is performed.
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If
gonadal hormones alone control sex - specific brain function, the two halves
of the bird's brain that controls song (known as the song circuit) would be uniformly masculine or feminine.
The experience can alter parts
of the brain which in turn control the production
of hormones (known as gonadotropin - releasing
hormones, or GnRH) which then regulate
gonadal (testicular) development.
Beyond that, high perceived stress strongly affects the control system
of most
hormones, which is the brain / body system known as the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal - thyroid -
gonadal (HPATG) axis.
These findings suggest that variations in
gonadal hormones during the menstrual cycle influence the experience
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of hormone imbalance (thyroid,
gonadal, adrenal, and other
hormone systems).
But some things to consider: a) the dose
of your thyroid medication might need to be adjusted based on the symptoms
of heart palpitations; b) there are many possible reasons that your testosterone level is low (e.g.: nutrient deficiencies, adrenal gland stress, hypothalamic / pituitary /
gonadal axis dysfunction, liver dysfunction, etc.), and c) your thyroid may not be functioning optimally despite being on thyroid
hormone.
Your endocrine pathway starts with the hypothalamus, affecting your pituitary, which in turn affects the function
of your thyroid, then adrenals,
gonadal hormones, and finally gut.
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For females, the
gonadal hormone exposure subgroups were: spayed before 1 year
of age; spayed between 1 and 5 years
of age; spayed after 5 years
of age; and sexually intact.
The possible mechanisms by which
gonadal hormone exposure might protect against the development
of bone sarcoma in both males and females are not immediately evident.
To determine whether there was an association between endogenous sex
hormones and risk
of bone sarcoma, relative risk (RR)
of incidence rates and hazard ratios for bone sarcoma were calculated for dogs subdivided on the basis
of lifetime
gonadal hormone exposure.
However, in that study, age at neutering was not available, and thus, duration
of exposure to
gonadal hormones for each dog could not be determined.
This analysis was also deemed logical for pathophysiological reasons because a disruption
of the growth plate closure by
gonadal hormone removal in the joint developmental stage would be expected to apply to all the joint disorders.
Differences in the two breeds studied here could be due to differences in sensitivities
of the growth plates to
gonadal hormone removal.
Comparisons
of cancers in the two breeds suggest that the occurrence
of cancers in female Golden Retrievers is a reflection
of particular vulnerability to
gonadal hormone removal.
McGreevy PD, Wilson B, Starling MJ, Serpell JA (2018) Behavioural risks in male dogs with minimal lifetime exposure to
gonadal hormones may complicate population - control benefits
of desexing.
The relatively high occurrence
of one or more
of these cancers in intact male Goldens, coupled with the relative absence
of an effect
of neutering, except with regard to LSA, points to a relatively high underlying rate
of cancer occurrence in this gender and breed that is not affected by
gonadal hormone removal.
This may reflect a particular sensitivity
of receptor sites
of some potentially metastatic cancer cells to
gonadal hormone removal and / or prolonged levels
of the gonadotropin
hormone, follicle stimulating
hormone [28].
The effects
of neutering in the first year
of a dog's life, especially in larger breeds, undoubtedly reflects the vulnerability
of joints to delayed closure
of long - bone growth plates from
gonadal hormone removal [26], [27].
In dogs with congenital hypopituitarism (pituitary dwarfism, see Juvenile - onset Panhypopituitarism), there may be variable degrees
of thyroidal, adrenocortical, and
gonadal deficiency, but clinical signs are primarily related to growth
hormone deficiency.