Review Article
A Review of In Vitro and In Vivo Studies on the Efficacy of Herbal Medicines for Primary Dysmenorrhea
Table 5
Target cells and animal models.
| Target cells (in vitro) | Reference |
| Human endometrium | [24] | Uterine muscle from rats or mice | [14, 18, 35, 56, 61ā67] | Endometrium from rats | [25] |
| Animal models (in vivo) | Reference |
| Estrus stage | [56] | Induced by oxytocin following estradiol benzoate | [18, 27, 36, 50, 58] | Induced by acetic acid | [26, 35, 50] |
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