Antifertility activity of the flowers of Striga senegalensis (Acrophularisceae)

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 207-208

  Choudhury, M K ^a   Sani, U M ^a   Mustapha, A ^a  

^a AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Albino rats; Antiimplatation; Flowers; Scrophulariaceae; Striga senegalensis

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ISOLATION; FEMALE; HIGHER PLANT; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RAT;

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; SCROPHULARIACEAE; STRIGA; STRIGA SENEGALENSIS;

EID: 0031918241     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199805)12:3<207::AID-PTR210>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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