Chinese herb mix Tiáo-Gēng-Tāng possesses antiaging and antioxidative effects and upregulates expression of estrogen receptors alpha and beta in ovariectomized rats

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Xu, Lian wei ^a,b   Kluwe, Lan ^b   Zhang, Ting ting ^a   Li, Sheng nan ^a   Mou, Yan yan ^a   Sang, Zhen ^c   Ma, Jun ^a   Lu, Xiong ^a   Sun, Zhuo jun ^c  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c SHUGUANG HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FOLLITROPIN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIAO GENG TANG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIOXIDANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGING; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; OVARIECTOMY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84855181485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-11-137     Document Type: Article

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