title: Female reproductive profile in a fertile, genetically obese line of rats.
abstract: The female reproductive profile of a fertile genetically obese line of rats, named beta, is characterized. Hypophysis, ovaries, oviducts, and uteri weights do not differ from those of nonobese controls. Histological features in ovary, uterus, and vagina in beta line and alpha controls are similar, in agreement with classical descriptions in the subject. Vaginal opening, number of estrus, number of corpora lutea at ovulation time, and pregnancy patterns (i.e., ovary weight, number of corpora lutea, sites of implantation, and living fetuses, as well as productivity, fertility, litter size, and preweaning mortality) show no significant differences between obese and nonobese animals. From a reproductive standpoint, obese beta line would behave as nonobese. Up to now beta would represent the only fertile genetically obese line of rats, appearing as a profitable biological model to widen and deepen reproductive analysis on obesity.
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hisano
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: D'Ottavio
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Calderari
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003338:Corpus Luteum / Q000166:cytology; D004971:Estrus; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D005313:Fetal Death; D008098:Litter Size; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009929:Organ Size; D010053:Ovary / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D010060:Ovulation; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012098:Reproduction; D014621:Vagina / Q000033:anatomy & histology