Curcumin: A potential vaginal contraceptive

Contraception

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-223

  Rithaporn, Tara ^a,b   Monga, Manoj ^a   Rajasekaran, Mahadevan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Curcumin; Human sperm; JC 1; Mitochondria; Motility

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; SPERMICIDAL AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; POVIDONE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SCREENING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VAGINA CONTRACEPTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KINETICS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; CURCUMIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; POVIDONE; SOLUTIONS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 1542649950     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(03)00163-X     Document Type: Article

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