Reproduction Abstracts

Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome are at increased risk of developing insulin resistance, obesity and dyslipidemia. Amplified metabolic perturbations during puberty may be a central factor contributing to metabolic phenotype of adult PCOS. Using a clinically realistic ovine model of PCOS we reported hyperinsulinaemia and early fatty liver changes, with no difference in body weight and adiposity, in adolescence.Here we aimed to further examine metaboli...

Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrinopathy in premenopausal women and is associated with hyperandrogenism, anovulatory infertility, and metabolic abnormalities. Abnormalities in the steroidogenic pathway of both theca and granulosa cells have previously been reported, but there has been no comprehensive analysis of steroidogenic gene expression in granulosa-lutein (GL) cells of women with PCOS. In this study, we investigated a panel of genes invo...