Pueraria tuberosa DC extract improves androgenesis and sexual behavior via FSH LH cascade

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chauhan, Nagendra Singh ^a   Sharma, Vikas ^a   Thakur, Mayank ^b   Christine Helena Frankland Sawaya, Alexandra ^c   Dixit, V K ^a  

^a DR H S GOUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BIOCHANIN A; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; DAIDZEIN; FOLLITROPIN; FORMONONETIN; FRUCTOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PUERARIA EXTRACT; PUERARIA TUBEROSA EXTRACT; PUERARIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANDROGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE WEIGHT; PUERARIA; PUERARIA TUBEROSA; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FRUCTOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PUERARIA; RATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERM COUNT; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84896327391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/780659     Document Type: Article

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