[HTML][HTML] Western-style diet, with and without chronic androgen treatment, alters the number, structure, and function of small antral follicles in ovaries of young adult …

CV Bishop, F Xu, J Xu, AY Ting, E Galbreath… - Fertility and sterility, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To examine the small antral follicle (SAF) cohort in ovaries of adult rhesus
monkeys after consumption of a Western-style diet (WSD), with or without chronically
elevated androgen levels since before puberty. Design Cholesterol or T (n= 6 per group)
implants were placed SC in female rhesus macaques beginning at 1 year of age
(prepubertal), with addition of a WSD (high fat/fructose) at 5.5 years (menarche
approximately 2.6 years). Ovaries were collected at 7 years of age. One ovary per female …