Article
[The role of prenatal hyperandrogenism on lipid metabolism during adult life in a rat model].
Medicina - 1 Jan 2012
Heber María F, Vélez Leandro M, Ferreira Silvana R, Amalfi Sabrina, Motta Alicia B
Abstract excerpt
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the commonest endocrine diseases that affect women in their reproductive ages; however, the etiology of the syndrome remains unknown. A hypothesis proposes that during gestation increased exposure of androgen would induce fetal programming that may increase the risk of PCOS development during the adult life. By means of a prenatally hyperandrogenized (HA) rat model we...
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