声明
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
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摘要
ABSTRACT
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
CHAPTER 1.HERBAL MEDICINE USAGE IN THERAPEUTICS
1 Overview of herbal medicine usage in therapeutics
1.1 Herbal medicine usage in China and Asia
1.2 Herbal medicine usage in Africa
1.3 Herbal medicine usage in the rest of the world
2 The future of herbal medicine in health care delivery
CHAPTER 2.HERBAL EPIMEDIUM AND REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT
1.2 BotanicaI description and species
1.3 Ethnopharmacological,traditional and current uses
1.4 Chemical composition of herbal Epimedium
1.5 Processing and quality control methods
1.6 Estrogen-like activity of herbal Epimedium
1.7 Other pharmacological action of herbal Epimedium
1.8 Side effects and acute toxicity of herbal Epimedium
2 Basic biology of the mouse ovary and the regulation of reproduction
3 Ovarian follicle development and oocyte maturation
4 Objectives
CHAPTER 3.EFFECTS OF EPIMEDIUM ON MOUSE OVARYAND UTERUS DEVELOPMENT
1 Materials and methods
1.1 Animals
1.2 Reagents
1.4 EP medicine,fixatives and tissue culture media preparations
1.5 The main instruments and equipment
2 Experimental design and work
2.1 Ovarian tissue preparation
2.3 Oocyte culture in vitro
2.4 Determination of reproductive index (RI)
2.5 Preparation of histological sections of mice ovaries
2.6 Statistical analysis
3 Results
3.1 Effects of EP on body weight of mice
3.2 Effects of EP on reproductive index
3.3 Oocyte culture evaluation
3.4 Histological evaluation
4 Discussion
CHAPTER 4.EFFECTS OF EPS ON MOUSE OVARY AND UTERUS DEVELOPMENT
1 Materials and methods
1.1 Animals
1.2 Reagents
1.3 EPS medicine,fixatives and tissue culture media preparations
1.4 The main instruments and equipment
2 Experimental design
2.1 Ovarian tissue preparation
2.2 Oocyte culture in vitro
2.3 Determination of reproductive index (RI)
2.4 Preparation of histological sections of mice ovaries
2.5 Statistical analysis
3 Results
3.1 Effects of EPS on body weight of mice
3.3 Oocyte culture evaluation
3.4 Histological evaluation
4 Discussion
CHAPTER 5.EFFECTS OF ICA ON MOUSE OVARY AND UTERUS DEVELOPMENT
1 Materials and methods
1.1 Animals
1.2 Reagents
1.3 ICA medicine,fixatives and tissue culture media preparations
1.4 The main instruments and equipment
2 Experimental design
2.1 Ovarian tissue preparation
2.2 Oocyte culture in vitro
2.3 Determination of reproductive index (RI)
2.4 Preparation of histological sections of mice ovaries
2.5 Statistical analysis
3 Results
3.1 Effects of ICA on body weight of mice
3.2 Effects of ICA on reproductive index
3.3 Ooeyte culture evaluation
3.4 Histological evaluation
4 Discussion
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
DEDICATION