title: [Effects of soy bean isoflavone on inhibition of benign prostatic hyperplasia and the expressions of NO and NOS of rats].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the inhibitive effect of soybean isoflavone on the prostatic hyperplasia on the expressions of nitric oxid and nitric oxide synthase in the prostatic hyperplasia rats.
  
  
  METHODS
  Subcutaneously injected testosterone propionate were to induce prostate hyperplasia in rats. The changes of prostate wet weight, prostatic index, liver index, the changes of some biochemical indexes in rat prostate tissue in the control and the treatment, the low, moderate, high dose groups of soybean isoflavone groups were observed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The prostate wet weight and prostatic index in all dose groups were merely lower than those in the treatment and the moderate groups were lowest in all dose group. There were no significant differences in liver index, urea nitrogen, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase of each group. Acid phosphatase, prostatic acid phosphatase and lactate dehydrogenase in all dose groups were merely lower than those in the treatment group. Nitric oxide and nitric oxide synthase in all dose groups were merely higher than those in the treatment group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Soybean isoflavone could inhibit prostate hyperplasia and increase the expressions of nitric oxide and nitric oxide synthase in rats.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China. yaiq2004@163.com
authors.forename: Aiqing
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Guofeng
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Weiwei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007529:Isoflavones / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009929:Organ Size / Q000187:drug effects; D011467:Prostate / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000187:drug effects; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia / Q000378:metabolism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011897:Random Allocation; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013025:Glycine max / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D007529:Isoflavones; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase