Subchronic (13-week) toxicity studies of intravaginal administration of spermicidal vanadocene dithiocarbamate in mice

Contraception

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 177-185

  D’cruz, Osmond J ^a   Waurzyniak, Barbara ^a   Uckun, Fatih M ^a  

^a PARKER HUGHES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

13 Week intravaginal; Contraception; Spermicide; Vanadium; Vanadocene

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PLACEBO; SPERMICIDAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANADIUM; VANADOCENE DITHIOCARBAMATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEMALE; GELS; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOCIDAL AGENTS; VAGINA; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0034755978     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(01)00245-1     Document Type: Article

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