Dominant lethal study of α-asarone in male and female mice after sub-chronic treatment

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 308-311

  Chamorro, Germán ^a   Salazar, Mariá ^a   Tamariz, Joaquín ^a   Díaz, Francisco ^a   Labarrios, Fernando ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Asarone; Dominant lethal study; Genotoxicity; Hypocholesterolaemic; Hypolipidaemic

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ASARONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT LETHAL TEST; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS WEIGHT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; ANISOLES; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, LETHAL; MALE; MICE; MUTATION; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; GUATTERIA; GUATTERIA GAUMERI;

EID: 0033058143     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199906)13:4<308::AID-PTR449>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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