The present study was designed to examine the effect of ferutinin chronic administration on sexual behavior of ovariectomized non-estrogen-primed rats. Starting from 3 weeks after ovariectomy, female rats were orally treated with ferutinin at the doses of 0.2 and 0.5mg/kg, daily for 4 weeks. Ferutinin's effect was compared with that of estradiol benzoate, subcutaneously injected at the dose of 1.5mug/rat twice a week. Animals were tested for sexual motivation, receptivity and proceptivity after 1, 2 and 3 weeks of treatment and for paced mating behavior after 4 weeks of treatment. Before each experimental test, they received progesterone injection (500mug/rat). Both dosages of ferutinin significantly increased the receptive behavior in a time-dependent manner, as well as estradiol benzoate did. Also proceptive behaviors increased in ferutinin-treated animals in comparison with control ones. During the partner preference test ferutinin was able to induce a significant preference for a sexually active male over a sexually receptive female. Moreover, ferutinin restored a normal paced mating behavior, which had been suppressed by ovariectomy. These results show that ferutinin exerts an estrogenic activity in ovariectomized non-estrogen-primed female rats.
The phytoestrogen ferutinin improves sexual behavior in ovariectomized rats / Zavatti, Manuela; Benelli, Augusta; C., Montanari; Zanoli, Paola. - In: PHYTOMEDICINE. - ISSN 0944-7113. - STAMPA. - 16(2009), pp. 547-554.
Data di pubblicazione: | 2009 |
Titolo: | The phytoestrogen ferutinin improves sexual behavior in ovariectomized rats. |
Autore/i: | Zavatti, Manuela; Benelli, Augusta; C., Montanari; Zanoli, Paola |
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Volume: | 16 |
Pagina iniziale: | 547 |
Pagina finale: | 554 |
Codice identificativo ISI: | WOS:000266791400007 |
Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-67349176053 |
Codice identificativo Pubmed: | 19181505 |
Citazione: | The phytoestrogen ferutinin improves sexual behavior in ovariectomized rats / Zavatti, Manuela; Benelli, Augusta; C., Montanari; Zanoli, Paola. - In: PHYTOMEDICINE. - ISSN 0944-7113. - STAMPA. - 16(2009), pp. 547-554. |
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