Endocrine Regulations (Jan 2023)

Leptin alleviated ovarian ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats via modulation of Sirt-1/Nrf2 and TLR4/NF-kB/caspase-3 signaling pathways

  • Abdel-Hamid Heba A.,
  • Maqsoud Nehad MR. Abdel,
  • Toni Nisreen DM.,
  • Ahmed Rasha F.,
  • Abdel-Hakeem Elshymaa A.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/enr-2023-0004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 57, no. 1
pp. 25 – 36

Abstract

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Objective. Ovarian torsion is a gynecological emergency that occurs mostly during the female reproductive years due to ovarian masses or surgical manipulation. This work aims to explore the probable protective effect of leptin on rat ovaries due to ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury.

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