@LucH Yes i know about the toxic effects of estrogen and further cascades. I was just curious about this and see if i understand things correctly.
In the paper they mention decreased dihydroorotate dehydrogenase expression (after OVX), so estrogen should increase the activity of it. Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase catalyzes ubiquinon to ubiquinol and a reduced pool of ubiquinon is a marker of Reverse Electron Transport (RET). The RET leads to an increased ROS production, which leads, depending on the fatty acid structure (saturated vs. unsaturated) to more lipid peroxidation.
So if i understand this correctly, how on earth should estrogen be helpful in this situation? It should rather be toxic given the above mentioned information.