The protective effect of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni on serum hormone levels, key steroidogenesis enzymes, and testicular damage in testes of diabetic rats

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2019, Pages 833-840

  Gholizadeh, Fatemeh ^a   Dastghaib, Sanaz ^a   Koohpeyma, Farhad ^b   Bayat, Elahe ^a   Mokarram, Pooneh ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cyp11a1; Diabetes; Hsd17b3; Spermatogenesis; Star; Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); GLUCOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METFORMIN; NICOTINAMIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; STEVIA REBAUDIANA EXTRACT; STREPTOZOCIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP11A1 GENE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HSD17B3 GENE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STAR GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; STEVIA REBAUDIANA; TESTIS; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEVIA; WISTAR RAT;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEVIA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 85070495692     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2019.08.001     Document Type: Article

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