To clarify the influence of primary testicular failure upon circannual hormone rhythmicity we have been studying, by cross-sectional design, 93 adult patients with Klinefelter's syndrome (KS) and 64 adult healthy males to look for evidence of circannual rhythms in testosterone (T), LH, FSH and PRL plasma concentrations. Plasma samples were taken from 08.00 to 09.00 h and all hormones were measured by radioimmunoassay. The data were assessed by the single cosinor method in order to obtain evidence for any significant rhythm and to estimate its parameters mesor, amplitude and acrophase. In the controls, annual rhythms were validated for the secretion of T (annual crest time in September), LH (annual crest time in February) and FSH (annual crest time in January), whereas PRL did not show a significant annual rhythm. In KS, significant circannual rhythms were validated for the secretion of T (annual crest time in April) and FSH (annual crest time in September), but not for LH and PRL secretion. Our results suggest that in KS the circannual hormone rhythmicity may be influenced by seminiferous tubule dysgenesis.
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