Spearmint induced hypothalamic oxidative stress and testicular anti-androgenicity in male rats - altered levels of gene expression, enzymes and hormones

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3563-3570

  Kumar, Vikas ^a   Kural, Mool Raj ^a   Pereira, B M J ^a   Roy, Partha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Anti androgenecity; Gonadotropins; Hypothalamus; Mentha spicata; Steroidogenic enzymes; Testis

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CATALASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYTOCHROME P450C17; ENZYME; FOLLITROPIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENTHA SPICATA EXTRACT; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR BI; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MENTHA SPICATA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MENTHA SPICATA; ORGAN SIZE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROIDS; TESTIS;

LAMIACEAE; MENTHA SPICATA; RATTUS;

EID: 55949122481     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2008.08.027     Document Type: Article

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