Reduced anaerobic glycolysis in oral contraceptive users

Vijayalakshmi, R.; Bamji, M.S.; Ramalakshmi, B.A.

Contraception 38(1): 91-97

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0010-7824
PMID: 2971503
DOI: 10.1016/0010-7824(88)90098-4
Document Number: 357947
Oral contraceptives containing combinations of estrogens and progestogens are known to impair glucose tolerance. The biochemical mechanisms underlying this lesion are speculative. In the present study women treated with OC for periods exceeding 10 cycles showed significant reduction in the activity of the key glycolytic enzyme phosphofructokinase (40%) and the levels of lactate (42%) in the erythrocytes compared to controls. These observations in women are analogous to those made earlier in female rats.

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