Reproduction Abstracts

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...

Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder, affecting 5–10% of women of reproductive age, and is the major cause of anovulatory infertility and hyperandrogenism. Aberrant secretion and or action of gonadotropins are implicated but, to date, we have only limited knowledge about the precise mechanisms that are involved. Recent genome wide association studies have discovered significant signals have emerged at loci close to the genes on chr...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects over 5% of women of reproductive age. It is associated with an ovulatory infertility, menstrual disturbances as well as metabolic abnormalities including obesity and insulin resistance. PCOS has a strong genetic basis but studies of ovarian gene expression in PCOS are limited by the difficulty in obtaining tissue samples from women with and without PCOS. For that reason, most studies have been performed in granulosa–lutein (GL) cel...