Steroid-induced polycystic ovaries in rats: Effect of electro-acupuncture on concentrations of endothelin-1 and nerve growth factor (NGF), and expression of NGF mRNA in the ovaries, the adrenal glands, and the central nervous system

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Stener Victorin, Elisabet ^a   Lundeberg, Thomas ^b   Cajander, Stefan ^c   Aloe, Luigi ^d   Manni, Luigi ^d   Waldenström, Urban ^a   Janson, Per Olof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Department of Pathology and Cytology ^*  (Sweden)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; STEROID; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TISSUE LEVEL; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; INNERVATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDIAN EMINENCE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENDOTHELIN-1; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OVARY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 4344622105     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-1-33     Document Type: Article

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