Reproduction in Male Rats is Vulnerable to Treatment with the Flavonoid-rich Seed Extracts of Vitex negundo

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-13

  Das, Suwagmani ^a   Parveen, Seema ^a   Kundra, Chander Parkash ^a   Pereira, Ben M J ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Accessory sex organs; Biochemical markers; Blood toxicity profiles; Flavonoids; Sperm; Vitex negundo

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; CITRIC ACID; FLAVONOID; FRUCTOSE; VITEX NEGUNDO EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PLANT SEED; PROSTATE; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; ANIMALS; CITRIC ACID; FLAVONOIDS; FRUCTOSE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEEDS; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; VITEX;

ACER; ANIMALIA; VITEX NEGUNDO;

EID: 0842291454     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1352     Document Type: Article

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