Effects of Chinese herbal medicine on modulating the course of puberty development in children with precocious puberty

Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 166-174

  Cai, De Pei ^a   Chen, Bo Ying ^a   Zhang, Wei ^b   Li, Pin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Molecular Biology   (China)

Author keywords

endorphin; Chinese materia medica; Hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis; Neuropeptide Y; Neurotransmitters; Puberty, precocious; Somatostatin growth hormone IGF I axis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; BETA ENDORPHIN; CHINESE DRUG; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MATERIA MEDICA; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SOMATOMEDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YISHEN TIANJING; ZIYIN XIEHUO;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METAPHYSIS; NERVE CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREPUBERTY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHILD; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PUBERTY; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 33645292329     PISSN: 16721977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3736/jcim20060212     Document Type: Article

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