“…Evidence has also shown the involvement of adiponectin directly at the peripheral level on the ovary, uterus and placenta (Caminos et al, ; Dobrzyn et al, ; Reverchon et al, ). Expression of adiponectin and its receptors (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) have been demonstrated in the ovary of rat (Chabrolle, Tosca, & Dupont, ), chicken (Chabrolle, Tosca, Crochet, Tesseraud, & Dupont, ), human (Chabrolle et al, ), bovine (Tabandeh, Hosseini, Saeb, Kafi, & Saeb, ), porcine (Maleszka, Smolinska, Nitkiewicz, Kiezun, Chojnowska, et al, ; Maleszka, Smolinska, Nitkiewicz, Kiezun, Dobrzyn, et al, ) and caprine (Oliveira et al, ). Recent research findings have shown that adiponectin affects the steroidogenesis and proliferation of ovarian cells.…”