Hormone

Treatment

Admission (A)

End of Month 1

End of Month 2

End of Month 3

End of Month 4

SED

Placebo

Maca

SED

P

FSH

(mIU/ml)

APPMM

64.62

70.54

71.28

65.6

60.66

8.08

70.91

63.56

5.6

ns

AMMPP

69.03

62.01

57.27

53.63

59.22

7.465

56.42

59.64

5.29

ns

SED

 

17.301

17.348

17.371

19.208

16.565

15.618

 

 

 P

 

 ns

ns 

 

 

 

 ns

ns 

 

 

E2

(Pg/ml)

APPMM

19.11

8.33

15.14

45.72

58.43

22.195

11.73B

50.95A

15.36

<0.05

AMMPP

8.62

12.08

25.3

25.61

17.14

21.602

21.13

18.69

15.05

ns

SED

 

31.661

28.375

29.016

35.96

18.992

19.124

 

 

 P

 

 ns

 ns

 ns

Ns 

 

 ns

ns 

 

 

PRG

(ng/ml)

APPMM

0.201

0.203

0.213

0.277

0.286

0.232

0.208

0.282

0.176

ns

AMMPP

0.224

0.233

0.373

0.281

0.252

0.281

0.266

0.303

0.125

ns

SED

 

0.429

0.425

0.224

0.261

0.172

0.148

 

 

 P

 

ns 

ns 

 ns

ns 

 

ns 

 ns

 

 

LH

(mIU/ml)

APPMM

43.79

38.92

38.91

34.05

32.41

3.985

38.91A

33.38B

2.74

<0.05

AMMPP

36.66

32.69

32.58

30.03

32.5

3.678

31.27

32.64

2.59

ns

SED

 

8.6

8.566

8.622

8.805

6.203

6.035

 

 

P

ns

ns

ns

Ns

ns

ns

1 For explanation see Table 1.

SED, Standard error of differences; P, Probabilities of significance. ns, not significant at P>0.05; <0.05, significance at 5% probability level; <0.01, significance at 1% probability level; <0.001, significance at 0.1% probability level.