Switching from high-fat diet to normal diet ameliorate BTB integrity and improve fertility potential in obese male mice

W Zhang, Z Tian, X Qi, P Chen, Q Yang, Q Guan… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Obesity is a prominent risk factor for male infertility, and a high-fat diet is an important cause
of obesity. Therefore, diet control can reduce body weight and regulate blood glucose and …

[HTML][HTML] Paternal diet-induced obesity impairs embryo development and implantation in the mouse

M Mitchell, HW Bakos, M Lane - Fertility and sterility, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To use a rodent model of male diet-induced obesity (DIO) to examine resultant
preimplantation embryo development and implantation rate, as well as fetal and placental …

High‐fat diets reduce male reproductive success in animal models: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

AJ Crean, AM Senior - Obesity Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sperm counts have shown a progressive decline across the world since the mid‐1900s.
Global rates of obesity have been climbing at a similarly alarming rate, suggesting that these …

Oxidative stress in mouse sperm impairs embryo development, fetal growth and alters adiposity and glucose regulation in female offspring

M Lane, NO McPherson, T Fullston, M Spillane… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Paternal health cues are able to program the health of the next generation however the
mechanism for this transmission is unknown. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are increased …

Impact of obesity and overweight on DNA stability: Few facts and many hypotheses

T Setayesh, A Nersesyan, M Mišík, F Ferk… - … research/reviews in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Health authorities are alarmed worldwide about the increase of obesity and overweight in
the last decades which lead to adverse health effects including inflammation, cancer …

Paternal diet-induced obesity retards early mouse embryo development, mitochondrial activity and pregnancy health

NK Binder, NJ Hannan, DK Gardner - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Worldwide, 48% of adult males are overweight or obese. An association between infertility
and excessive body weight is now accepted, although focus remains primarily on females. It …

The effect of excess body fat on female and male reproduction

G Mintziori, MP Nigdelis, H Mathew, A Mousiolis… - Metabolism, 2020 - Elsevier
The dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity coincides with a decline in reproductive
health indices in both sexes. Energy excess mediates changes to the regulatory …

Paternal high‐fat diet consumption induces common changes in the transcriptomes of retroperitoneal adipose and pancreatic islet tissues in female rat offspring

SF Ng, RCY Lin, CA Maloney, NA Youngson… - The FASEB …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We previously showed that paternal high‐fat diet (HFD) consumption programs β‐cell
dysfunction in female rat offspring, together with transcriptome alterations in islets. Here we …

Obesity, energy balance and spermatogenesis

PF Oliveira, M Sousa, BM Silva, MP Monteiro… - …, 2017 - rep.bioscientifica.com
Obesity has grown to pandemic proportions. It affects an increasing number of children,
adolescents and young adults exposed to the silent comorbidities of this disorder for a …

Metformin improves fertility in obese males by alleviating oxidative stress‐induced blood‐testis barrier damage

J Ye, D Luo, X Xu, M Sun, X Su, Z Tian… - Oxidative medicine …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background/Aims. Obesity, which is related to increased oxidative stress in various tissues,
is a risk factor for male infertility. Metformin is reported to have an antioxidant effect; …