Vittorio Unfer

ORCID: 0000-0002-1805-3181 · 6 papers in corpus
article 2025
2021
Basic and clinical andrology ·doi:10.1186/s12610-021-00131-x

BackgroundAndrogen deficiency affects men in the adulthood, causing several harmful effects at the reproductive and behavioural levels. Since aromatase is an enzyme that catalyses the conversion of androgens to estrogens, and it is responsi…

2021
Biomedicines ·doi:10.3390/biomedicines9101378

D-chiro-inositol (DCI) is a natural compound detectable in cell membranes, which is highly conserved as a biological signaling molecule. In mammals, its function is primarily characterized in the intracellular transduction cascade of insuli…

review 2021
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences ·doi:10.26355/eurrev_202101_24412

OBJECTIVE: D-chiro-Inositol has been widely used in clinical practice to induce ovulation in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Only recent evidence established that this molecule acts through two different mechanisms, with potentially d…

2020
Expert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology ·doi:10.1080/17425255.2020.1785429

IntroductionInositols have a key role in ovarian physiology and the literature reports a wealth of studies about the major isomer, myo-inositol (MI). However, information about d-chiro-inositol (DCI) is still scarce, despite the ratio MI:DC…

article 2001
·doi:10.1159/000052906

Fifty healthy, voluntary patients aged between 20 and 30 years with regular menstruation and plasmatic progesterone level >10 ng/ml at the midluteal phase have been enrolled in this study. They were randomly treated with clomiphene citrate …