Effect of nourishing "Yin"-removing "Fire" Chinese herbal mixture on hypothalamic kisspeptin expression in female precocious rats

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 274-279

  Sun, Yan ^a,b   Perry, Genevieve Neal ^b   Yu, Jian ^a   Chen, Boying ^a   Tian, Zhanzhuang ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central precocious puberty; Herbal mixture; Kisspeptin; Rats

Indexed keywords

ALISMA PLANTAGO AQUATICA EXTRACT; ANEMARRHENA ASPHODELOIDES EXTRACT; CHINESE DRUG; DANAZOL; GENTIANA SCABRA EXTRACT; HORDEI GERMINATES EXTRACT; KISSPEPTIN; KISSPEPTIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL PRODUCT; NEUROPEPTIDE; PAEONIA SUFFRUTICOSA EXTRACT; PHELLODENDRON EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PRUNELLA VULGARIS EXTRACT; REHMANNIA GLUTINOSA EXTRACT; SCROPHULARIA BUERGERIANA EXTRACT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ALISMA; ALISMA PLANTAGO AQUATICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORK TREE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MIXTURE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENTIAN; GENTIANA SCABRA; HORDEI GERMINATES; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOME; SCROPHULARIA BUERGERIANA; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; OVARY; PROTEINS; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UP-REGULATION; UTERUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 73749084483     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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