| Literature DB >> 17434501 |
Nancy E Reame1, Jane L Lukacs, Pamela Olton, Rudi Ansbacher, Vasantha Padmanabhan.
Abstract
To assess the involvement of ovarian-derived regulatory proteins in FSH modulation, we compared FSH, inhibin A, inhibin B, activin A, and follistatin (FS) in 79 women from the following five groups: young cycling, older cycling, perimenopause (PERI), spontaneous menopause (PM), and surgical menopause receiving estrogen (OVX+ET). Although inhibin B varied as expected by ovarian function, no group differences were observed in activin A, barring a tendency for an increase in PERI, while FS 288 was lower in the PERI, PM, and OVX+ET groups and negatively correlated with advancing age.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17434501 PMCID: PMC2075352 DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Fertil Steril ISSN: 0015-0282 Impact factor: 7.329