The traditional Japanese medicine Rikkunshito increases the plasma level of ghrelin in humans and mice

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 300-307

  Matsumura, Tomoaki ^a   Arai, Makoto ^a   Yonemitsu, Yutaka ^a   Maruoka, Daisuke ^a   Tanaka, Takeshi ^a   Suzuki, Takuto ^a   Yoshikawa, Masaharu ^a   Imazeki, Fumio ^a   Yokosuka, Osamu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ghrelin; Herbal medicine; Human; Mice; Rikkunshito

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DRINKING WATER; GAMMA INTERFERON; GHRELIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4; KAMPO; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE HORMONE; RIKKUNSHITO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STUDENT T TEST; TREATMENT DURATION; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; GHRELIN; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICINE, KAMPO; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STOMACH; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77950458425     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-009-0166-z     Document Type: Article

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