TCPL drug delivery system: The effects of synthetic DHEA and diosgenin using an ovariectomized rat model

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 36, Issue , 2000, Pages 171-176

  Scott, Aaron ^a   Higdon, Kye ^a   Benghuzzi, Hamed ^a   Tucci, Michelle ^a   Cason, Zelma ^a   England, Barry ^b   Tsao, Audrey ^a   Hughes, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

DHEA; Diosgenin; Drug delivery system; Female rodents; Sustained release; TCPL

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; HORMONES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MORPHOLOGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; TISSUE;

DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE LYSINE;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; DIOSGENIN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; HORMONE; LYSINE; MALONALDEHYDE; PRASTERONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ENDOMETRIUM; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER METABOLISM; LUNG; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; RAT; SPLEEN; STAINING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CERAMICS; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DIOSGENIN; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; LYSINE; OVARIECTOMY; PHOSPHATES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0034056894     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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