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PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
Volume 79, Issue 6, Pages 962-970Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2016.14
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [HL074927, HL51971, P20GM104357]
- American Heart Association Grant in Aid [GRNT19900004]
- American Heart Association Post-Doctoral Fellowship Grant [12POST11980021]
- NIH [P20GM104357]
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Background: The incidence of metabolic disease increases in early menopause. Low birth weight influences the age at menopause. Thus, this study tested the hypothesis that intrauterine growth restriction programs early reproductive aging and impaired glucose homeostasis in female rats. Methods: Estrous cyclicity, body composition, and glucose homeostasis were determined in female control and-growth-restricted rats at 6 and 12 mo of age; sex steroids at 12 mo. Results: Glucose intolerance was present at 6 mo of age prior to cessation of estrous cyclicity and increased adiposity in female growth-restricted rats. However, female growth-restricted rats exhibited persistent estrus and a significant increase in adiposity, fasting glucose, and testosterone at 12 mo of age (P < 0.05). Insulin release in response to a glucose challenge was blunted in conjunction with a reduction in protein expression of pancreatic glucose transporter type 2 and estrogen receptor-alpha at 12 mo of age in female growth-restricted rats (P < 0.05). Conclusion: This study demonstrated that slow fetal growth programmed glucose intolerance that developed prior to early estrous acyclicity; yet, fasting glucose levels were elevated in conjunction with increased adiposity, accelerated cessation of estrous cyclicity and a shift toward testosterone excess at 12 mo of age in female growth-restricted rats.
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