The impact of the gut microbiota on the reproductive and metabolic endocrine system

X Qi, C Yun, Y Pang, J Qiao - Gut microbes, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
As the gut microbiota exerts various effects on the intestinal milieu which influences distant
organs and pathways, it is considered to be a full-fledged endocrine organ. The microbiota …

Hyperandrogenemia and insulin resistance: The chief culprit of polycystic ovary syndrome

J Wang, D Wu, H Guo, M Li - Life sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common systemic reproductive
endocrine diseases, which has a variety of effects on a woman's health. Because of the …

[HTML][HTML] Resistance to the insulin and elevated level of androgen: A major cause of polycystic ovary syndrome

H Ding, J Zhang, F Zhang, S Zhang, X Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
PCOS has a wide range of negative impacts on women's health and is one of the most
frequent reproductive systemic endocrine disorders. PCOS has complex characteristics and …

Female reproductive life span is extended by targeted removal of fibrotic collagen from the mouse ovary

T Umehara, YE Winstanley, E Andreas, A Morimoto… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The female ovary contains a finite number of oocytes, and their release at ovulation
becomes sporadic and disordered with aging and with obesity, leading to loss of fertility …

Preconception antidiabetic drugs in men and birth defects in offspring: a nationwide cohort study

MJ Wensink, Y Lu, L Tian, GM Shaw… - Annals of internal …, 2022 - acpjournals.org
Background: Diabetes reduces semen quality and increasingly occurs during reproductive
years. Diabetes medications, such as metformin, have glucose-independent effects on the …

[HTML][HTML] Improvement effect of metformin on female and male reproduction in endocrine pathologies and its mechanisms

AO Shpakov - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Metformin (MF), a first-line drug to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), alone and in
combination with other drugs, restores the ovarian function in women with polycystic ovary …

Metformin ameliorates polycystic ovary syndrome in a rat model by decreasing excessive autophagy in ovarian granulosa cells via the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway

B Xu, W Dai, L Liu, H Han, J Zhang, X Du, X Pei… - Endocrine …, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common gynecological disease accompanied by a
variety of clinical features, including anovulation, hyperandrogenism, and ovarian …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of separate and combined treatment of male rats with type 2 diabetes with metformin and orthosteric and allosteric agonists of luteinizing hormone …

AA Bakhtyukov, KV Derkach, VN Sorokoumov… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In men with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), steroidogenesis and spermatogenesis are
impaired. Metformin and the agonists of luteinizing hormone/human chorionic gonadotropin …

[HTML][HTML] Chitosan-stabilized selenium nanoparticles and metformin synergistically rescue testicular oxidative damage and steroidogenesis-related genes …

YM Abd El-Hakim, A Abdel-Rahman Mohamed… - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Background: this study examined the metformin (MF) and/or chitosan stabilized selenium
nanoparticles (CH-SeNPs) efficacy to alleviate the male reproductive function impairment in …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin in therapeutic applications in human diseases: Its mechanism of action and clinical study

Y Du, YJ Zhu, YX Zhou, J Ding, JY Liu - Molecular Biomedicine, 2022 - Springer
Metformin, a biguanide drug, is the most commonly used first-line medication for type 2
diabetes mellites due to its outstanding glucose-lowering ability. After oral administration of …