Reproduction Abstracts

The incidence of diabetes has increased in recent decades and by 2030, 366 million people worldwide will have the disease a significant proportion of these will be women of reproductive age. Diabetes is known to reduce fecundity and increase the likelihood of early pregnancy loss we propose that the high glucose levels seen in diabetes influence maternal fertility by impairing endometrial receptivity/function as a result of increased flux in the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway...