Effect of Nourishing “Yin” Removing “Fire” Chinese Herbal Mixture on Hypothalamic Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Expression during Onset of Puberty in Female Rats

Table 4

Wet weights and organ coefficients of uteri and ovaries at d31 ( = 5).

Groups	Wet weight of uteri (g)	Organ coefficients of uteri	Wet weight of ovaries (g)	Organ coefficients of ovaries
NS	0.1699 ± 0.0241	15.89 ± 2.04	0.0451 ± 0.0049	4.29 ± 0.55
CHM	0.0646 ± 0.0196^#	6.73 ± 1.99^#	0.0232 ± 0.0021^#	2.42 ± 0.19^#

The wet weight and organ coefficients of uteri and ovaries in CHM were significantly lower, which suggested that the Chinese herbal mixture could significantly delay the development of uteri and ovaries of pubertal female rats. NS: normal saline, CHM: Chinese herbal mixture. versus NS.