Induction of reversible antifertility with a crude ethanol extract of Citrullus colocynthis Schrad fruit in male rats

Pharmacology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-48

  Chaturvedi, M ^a   Mali, P C ^b   Ansari, A S ^b  

^a Department of Botany   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

50 ethanol extract; Androgenicity; Citrullus colocynthis; Hematology; Male albino rats, reversible infertility; Reversible infertility; Serum biochemistry

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; COLOCYNTH; PROTEIN; SIALIC ACID; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANDROGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CASTRATION; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; EOSINOPHIL; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; FRUIT; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE DEGENERATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CITRULLUS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FRUIT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLVENTS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 0037233048     PISSN: 00317012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068727     Document Type: Article

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