Feeding hydroalcoholic extract powder of Lepidium meyenii (maca) enhances testicular gene expression of 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in rats

Andrologia

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Ohta, Y ^a   Kawate, N ^a   Inaba, T ^a   Morii, H ^b   Takahashi, K ^b   Tamada, H ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b Towa Engineering Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 HSD; maca; rat; testis

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ALCOHOL; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); LEPIDIUM MEYENII EXTRACT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; 3 (OR 17)-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; GENE EXPRESSION; LEPIDIUM; LEPIDIUM MEYENII; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINAL VESICLE; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; LEPIDIUM; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RECEPTORS, LH; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 85014455374     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/and.12792     Document Type: Article

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