Circulating gonadotropins and ovarian adiponectin system are modulated by acupuncture independently of sex steroid or β-adrenergic action in a female hyperandrogenic rat model of polycystic ovary syndrome

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 412, Issue , 2015, Pages 159-169

  Maliqueo, Manuel ^a,b   Benrick, Anna ^c   Alvi, Asif ^c   Johansson, Julia ^c   Sun, Miao ^c,d   Labrie, Fernand ^e   Ohlsson, Claes ^c   Stener Victorin, Elisabet ^a,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^e LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Animal model; Estradiol; Polycystic ovary syndrome; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; ADIPONECTIN RECEPTOR 1; ADIPONECTIN RECEPTOR 2; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; LETROZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROPRANOLOL; RNA; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1, RAT; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERANDROGENISM; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; OVARY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; WISTAR RAT;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADIPONECTIN; ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPINS; HYPERANDROGENISM; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; OVARY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PROGESTERONE; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84939563024     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2015.04.026     Document Type: Article

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