Jinyuan Wang, Shun Zhang, Linlin Hu, Yan Wang, Ke Liu, Jianghua Le, Yongpeng Tan, Tianlong Li, Haoxuan Xue, Yanhong Wei, Ou Zhong, Junhui He, Dan Zi, Xin Lei, Renhe Deng, Yafei Luo, Masong Tang, Mingxuan Su, Yichang Cao, Qingyou Liu, Zhihan Tang, Xiaocan Lei
Abnormal lipid metabolism and chronic low-grade inflammation are the main traits of obesity. Especially, the molecular mechanism of concomitant deficiency in steroidogenesis-associated enzymes related to testosterone (T) synthesis of obesity dominated a decline in male fertility is still poorly understood. Here, we found that in vivo, supplementation of pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) efficaciously ameliorated the abnormal lipid metabolism and testicular spermatogenic function from high-fat-diet (HFD)-induced obese mice...
November 7, 2023: Cell Death & Disease