Pharmacokinetics of orally administered Norethisterone enanthate in rabbit, monkey, and women

Contraception

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 373-379

  Ravinder, P ^a   Shatrugna, Veena ^a   Madhavan Nair, K ^a   Sivakumar, B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

Author keywords

Monkey; Norethisterone; Norethisterone enanthate; Oral administration; Pharmacokinetics; Rabbit; Women

Indexed keywords

NORETHISTERONE ENANTATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; FEMALE FERTILITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RABBIT; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, SYNTHETIC; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; NORETHINDRONE; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030747198     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(97)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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