An Herbal Galactagogue Mixture Increases Milk Production and Aquaporin Protein Expression in the Mammary Glands of Lactating Rats

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Haibin ^a   Hua, Ying ^a   Luo, Hui ^a   Shen, Zhaojun ^a   Tao, Xuejiao ^a   Zhu, Xueqiong ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 3; AQUAPORIN 5; GALACTOGOGUE; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLAND; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84930000005     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/760585     Document Type: Article

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