Time- and dose-dependent antigonadotropic activity of oxidation products of gallic acid and pyrogallol on Leydig cells in vitro

Cytobios

Volumn 1996, Issue 344, 1996, Pages 7-16

  Burczyk, Jan ^a   Stolarczyk, Adam ^a   Wojtusiak, Anna ^b   Bilińska, Barbara ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antigonadotropic activity; Gallic acid oxidation products; In vitro; Leydig cells; Pyrogallol oxidation products

Indexed keywords

GALLIC ACID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PYROGALLOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DRUG EFFECT; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SECRETION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GALLIC ACID; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOLS; PYROGALLOL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0030344748     PISSN: 00114529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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