Antispermatogenic effect of Achillea millefolium L. in mice

Contraception

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 309-313

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Chemical   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Achillea millefolium; Antispermatogenic agent; Male Swiss mice; Medicinal plants; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Yarrow

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTISPERMATOGENIC AGENT; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; POLYSORBATE 80; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACHILLEA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GERM CELL; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 0032413108     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(98)00107-3     Document Type: Article

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