Decrease in sperm number after treatment of rats with Austroplenckia populnea

Contraception

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-50

  Mazaro, Renata ^a   Di Stasi, Luiz Claudio ^a   Filho, Sidney Augusto Vieira ^b   Kempinasc, Wilma De Grava ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Austroplenckia populnea; Celastraceae; Epididymis; Male reproductive system; Oligospermy; Sperm

Indexed keywords

AUSTROPLENCKIA POPULNEA EXTRACT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0033828878     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(00)00135-9     Document Type: Article

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