Effect of Ferula hermonis root extract on rat skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 236, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1373-1378

  Allouh, Mohammed Z ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Ferula; Hypertrophy; Phytoestrogen; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

FERULA HERMONIS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FENNEL; FERULA HERMONIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWIMMING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FERULA; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT ROOTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 82755180002     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2011.011164     Document Type: Article

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