Effect of royal jelly ingestion for six months on healthy volunteers

Nutrition Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Morita, Hiroyuki ^a   Ikeda, Takahide ^a   Kajita, Kazuo ^a   Fujioka, Kei ^a   Mori, Ichiro ^a   Okada, Hideyuki ^a   Uno, Yoshihiro ^a   Ishizuka, Tatsuo ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate; Erythropoiesis; Glucose tolerance; SF 36; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; PLACEBO; PRASTERONE SULFATE; ROYAL JELLY; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANDROSTENEDIONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; HEMATINICS; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866493441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2891-11-77     Document Type: Article

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