Estrogen secretion during infancy may selectively enhance the phosphogluconate oxidative pathway in the rat uterus, for altered estrogen-stimulated glucose oxidation prepubertally is correlated (+0.91) with impaired ovarian development and not uterine estrogen receptor content.
Key words Uterus - glucose - metabolism - ovary - neonatal - sex steroids
This work was supported in part by NSF Research Grant PCM-8409586.