Preventive effects of various ginseng saponins on the development of copulatory disorder induced by prolonged individual housing in male mice

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-64

  Yoshimura, Hiroyuki ^a   Kimura, Naoto ^a   Sugiura, Keisuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Copulatory disorder; Ginseng root; Ginsenosides; Individual housing; Male mice; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

CHIKUSETSU SAPONIN; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; GINSENOSIDE RB 1; GINSENOSIDE RB 2; GINSENOSIDE RG 1; PLANT EXTRACT; PROGESTERONE; SAPONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DRUG EFFECT; GINSENG; HERBAL MEDICINE; IMPOTENCE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; GINSENOSIDES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; SAPONINS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0031967741     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.1998.20.1.485633     Document Type: Article

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