Effect of Maytenus ilicifolia Mar.tex. Reiss on spermatogenesis

Contraception

Volumn 57, Issue 5 SUPPL., 1998, Pages 335-339

  Montanari, Tatiana ^a,b   De Carvalho, João Ernesto ^a   Dolder, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Male mice; Maytenus ilicifolia; Medicinal plants; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTISPERMATOGENIC AGENT; CREMOPHOR; FAT DROPLET; PLANT EXTRACT;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL VACUOLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GERM CELL; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MAYTENUS ILICIFOLIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLANT LEAF; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BIOLOGY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GENITALIA; GENITALIA, MALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICINE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; LIPIDS; MALE; MICE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 0031827848     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-7824(98)00038-9     Document Type: Article

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