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Leptin, Nutrition, and Reproduction: Timing Is Everything
1 Feb 2000
Abstract excerpt
It is well established that reproduction is very sensitive to nutritional status. Undernutrition delays the onset of sexual maturation (1, 2) and in sexually mature animals disrupts estrous cycles and delays the postpartum return to estrus (3, 4). Undernutrition also negatively affects sexual behavior (5). The negative influence of insufficient nutrition on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis is primarily...
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