In professional sports and in many gyms, men and women take high doses of synthe
ID: 31692 • Letter: I
Question
In professional sports and in many gyms, men and women take high doses of synthetic, anabolic steroids such as stanozolol. When Barry Bonds (a former baseball player) took anabolic (testosterone-like) steroids, he would have had shrunken testes and:
high levels of testosterone in his general blood circulation
high levels of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in his hypothalamic-pituitary blood portal vessels
low levels of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the hypothalamic-pituitary blood portal vessels
high levels of gonadotropins (LH and FSH) in his bloodstream high levels of stanozolol in his blood
a and b
c and e
Explanation / Answer
low levels of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the hypothalamic-pituitary blood portal vessels