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The Role of Combining Medroxyprogesterone 17-acetate With Human Menopausal Gonadotropin in Mouse Ovarian Follicular Development

The Role of Combining Medroxyprogesterone 17-acetate With Human Menopausal Gonadotropin in Mouse Ovarian Follicular Development

Xiaowei Wen, Jun Xie, Lixia Zhou, Yong Fan, Baofeng Yu, Qiuju Chen, Yonglun Fu, Zheng Yan, Haiyan Guo, Qifeng Lyu, Yanping Kuang, Weiran Chai

Sci Rep. 2018 Mar 13;8(1):4439.

PMID: 29535409

Abstract:

Medroxyprogesterone 17-acetate (MPA) combined with human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG) has been effectively used for ovarian stimulation in clinical practice. However, the molecular mechanism of MPA + hMG treatment in follicular development is poorly described. Here we performed a study to investigate the impact of MPA + hMG on ovarian stimulation utilizing a mouse model in vivo. Forty female BALB/C mice were randomly divided into four groups of 10 each and treated during ciestrus stage and continued for 5 days: control group, MPA group, hMG group, and MPA + hMG group. Morphological and molecular biology methods were used for detecting serum hormones and ovarian function. MPA + hMG group exhibited increasing follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), antral follicle, FSH receptor (FSHR) and phosphorylated mammal target of rapamycin (p-mTOR), and decreasing luteinizing hormone (LH), estradiol (E2), progesterone (P), corpus luteum, phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), Akt and mTOR compared with control group. In contrast, MPA + hMG group showed reduced FSH, LH, E2, P, corpus luteum, LH receptor (LHR), and activated PI3K,/Akt/mTOR pathway compared with hMG group (P < 0.05). Collectively, these data definitively established that MPA plus hMG may modulate the hormone, hormone receptor and PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway to influence follicular development in the mouse ovary. Our study provides overwhelming support for MPA + hMG as an effective treatment for infertility in women.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP71589-A	Medroxyprogesterone 17-acetate		71-58-9	Price

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