Erratum: Improved sexual behavior in male rats treated with a Chinese herbal extract: Hormonal and neuronal implications (Asia Journal of Andrology (2008) vol. 10 (937-945) 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2008.00437.x);Improved sexual behavior in male rats treated with a Chinese herbal extract: Hormonal and neuronal implications

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 937-945

  Zanoli, Paola ^a   Benelli, Augusta ^a   Zavatti, Manuela ^a   Rivasi, Marianna ^a   Baraldi, Claudia ^a   Baraldi, Mario ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG; CINNAMOMUM CASSIA EXTRACT; CLOVE EXTRACT; EPIMEDIUM KOREANUM EXTRACT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LYCIUM BARBARUM EXTRACT; MELISSA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DOPAMINE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BARK; CHINESE HERB; CLOVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; EJACULATION; EPIMEDIUM; EPIMEDIUM KOREANUM; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMPOTENCE; LYCIUM; LYCIUM BARBARUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN LEVEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMISTRY; COPULATION; DRUG EFFECT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COPULATION; DOPAMINE; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; EJACULATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTIVATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 59449109915     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2008.53     Document Type: Erratum

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