Animal Study: Stress might induce human infertility


	Animal Study: Stress might induce human infertility

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7-2-2007 6:40 PM

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In African naked mole-rat colonies, the queen is the only reproducing female—a feat she accomplishes by bullying around her fellow blind, tunnel-digging companions.
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“The <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=061009_mole_rat_02.jpg&cap=A+pregnant+naked+mole-rat+that+is+15+years+old.+Credit:+Rochelle+Buffenstein%2FCity+College+of+New+York.&title=Animal+Study:+Stress+Might+Induce+Infertility">queen</A>  exerts her dominance over the colony by, literally, pushing the other members of the colony around. She shoves them to show who’s boss,” said Chris Faulkes, a zoologist at the University of London.
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Faulkes explained that the stressful domination reduces fertility hormone levels—effectively suppressing puberty in young mole-rats, lowering sperm counts in males and even turning off the <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/ap_060522_menstrual_end.html">female ovulatory cycle</A> .
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Faulkes thinks stress and fertility areas of the brain are closely related in most mammals, so careful comparisons of mole-rats to humans could reveal how genes, environment, up-bringing and culture contribute to human infertility.
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