Long-term feeding of hydroalcoholic extract powder of Lepidium meyenii (maca) enhances the steroidogenic ability of Leydig cells to alleviate its decline with ageing in male rats

Andrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Yoshida, K ^a   Ohta, Y ^a   Kawate, N ^a   Takahashi, M ^b   Inaba, T ^a   Hatoya, S ^a   Morii, H ^c   Takahashi, K ^c   Ito, M ^c   Tamada, H ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Towa Engineering Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

ageing; Leydig cells; maca; rat; testosterone

Indexed keywords

22 HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LEPIDIUM MEYENII EXTRACT; PREGNENOLONE; TESTOSTERONE; 22-HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; LEPIDIUM; LEPIDIUM MEYENII; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HYDROXYCHOLESTEROLS; LEPIDIUM; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PREGNENOLONE; RATS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 85014828000     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/and.12803     Document Type: Article

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