Licorice can improve the success rate of insemination
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Last Update: 2012-01-13
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Licorice is a common Chinese herbal medicine, which can clear away heat, detoxify, moisten lung and stop cough A Japanese research team recently reported that licorice extract can improve the success rate of in vitro fertilization in animal experiments Tanaka Hongguang, associate professor of Pharmacy Department of Nagasaki International University, et al Used the sperm of five male mice with low insemination ability and the eggs of five healthy female mice in the in vitro insemination experiment, and then put them into the culture medium used in the usual in vitro insemination and the culture medium mixed with licorice ingredients respectively, and then compared their success rate of artificial insemination The results showed that the success rate of insemination was 43.5% in the normal culture medium If inseminated in the culture medium mixed with licorice, the success rate could be as high as 84%, almost doubled In the future, the research team plans to use animal experiments to further confirm the effect, and plans to carry out human reproductive application research within the year Researchers expect to use licorice to develop drugs that improve natural insemination.
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