Quercetin Induces Dose-Dependent Differential Morphological and Proliferative Changes in Rat Uteri in the Presence and in the Absence of Estrogen

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1307-1316

  Shahzad, Huma ^a   Giribabu, Nelli ^a   Sekaran, Muniandy ^a   Salleh, Naguib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Quercetin; Uterine morphology and proliferation

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; QUERCETIN; PLANT EXTRACT; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERUS; ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OVARIECTOMY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; OVARIECTOMY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; QUERCETIN; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

EID: 84952648465     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: 15577600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2014.3293     Document Type: Article

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