Suppressive effects of genistein and daidzein on pituitary-thyroid axis in orchidectomized middle-aged rats

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 235, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 590-598

  Sosic Jurjevic, Branka ^a   Filipović, Branko ^a   Ajdžanović, Vladimir ^a   Savin, Svetlana ^b   Nestorović, Nataša ^a   Milošević, Verica ^a   Sekulić, Milka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute for the Application of Nuclear Energy   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Daidzein; Genistein; Pituitary; Rats; Thyroid; TSH cells

Indexed keywords

DAIDZEIN; GENISTEIN; IODINE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ANDROPAUSE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL VOLUME; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; RAT; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; AGING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR SIZE; ORGAN SIZE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; THYROID GLAND; TSH SECRETING CELL; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; GLYCINE MAX; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL NUCLEUS SIZE; CELL SIZE; GENISTEIN; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPHS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 77952557684     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2009.009279     Document Type: Article

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