An alternative medicine study of herbal effects on the penetration of zona-free hamster oocytes and the integrity of sperm deoxyribonucleic acid

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 517-522

  Ondrizek, Richard R ^a   Chan, Philip J ^a   Patton, William C ^a   King, Alan ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; BRCA1 breast cancer gene; Echinacea purpura; Ginkgo biloba; Oocyte penetration; Saw palmetto; Sperm; St. John's wort

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; DNA; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA DENATURATION; DRUG EFFECT; ECHINACEA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HAMSTER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; MALE; MUTAGENIC ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SABAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DNA; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GINKGO BILOBA; HUMANS; HYPERICUM; MALE; OOCYTES; PERYLENE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POINT MUTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUERCETIN; SERENOA; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; XANTHENES;

EID: 0032914344     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00476-2     Document Type: Article

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