Estrogenic activity of griffonianone C, an isoflavone from the root bark of Millettia griffoniana: Regulation of the expression of estrogen responsive genes in uterus and liver of ovariectomized rats

Planta Medica

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 512-518

  Wanda, Germain Jean Magloire Ketcha ^a   Starcke, Susanne ^a   Zierau, Oliver ^a   Njamen, Dieudonné ^b   Richter, Tobias ^a   Vollmer, Günter ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Griffonianone C; Leguminosae; Liver; Millettia griffoniana; Real time PCR; Uterus; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE II; CLUSTERIN; ESTRADIOL; GRIFFONIANONE C; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; MILLETA GRIFFONIANA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; ISOFLAVONES; LIVER; MILLETTIA; OVARIECTOMY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT ROOTS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; FABACEAE; MILLETTIA GRIFFONIANA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 34250820575     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-967186     Document Type: Article

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