The use of dehydroepiandrosterone-treated rats is not a good animal model for the study of metabolic abnormalities in polycystic ovary syndrome

• Egile Nagusiak: Kok-Min Seow (Egilea), Ching-Heng Ting (Egilea), Seng-Wong Huang (Egilea), Low-Tone Ho (Egilea), Chi-Chang Juan (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Elsevier, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Objective: Hyperandrogenism is the hallmark of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The use of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)-treated rats is thought to be a suitable animal model to study PCOS. In the present study, we assessed the severity of reproductive and metabolic abnormalities in DHEA-treated ra...