Estrogen-like activity of quercetin in female rats

Erciyes Tip Dergisi

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 53-58

  Yiğitaslan, Semra ^a   Erol, Kevser ^a   Özatik, Fikriye Yasemin ^b   Özatik, Orhan ^b   Şahin, Sabiha ^a   Çengelli, Çiğdem ^a  

^a OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b AHI EVRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; 4 vinylcyclohexene dioxide; Estrogen; Quercetin; Uterus

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ESTRADIOL; FULVESTRANT; QUERCETIN; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; ESTROGEN LIKE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PREPUBERTY; RAT; UTERINE TISSUE; UTERUS WEIGHT;

EID: 84979047290     PISSN: 1300199X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/etd.2016.0005     Document Type: Article

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