A potent sperm motility-inhibiting activity of bioflavonoids from an ethnomedicine of Onge, Alstonia macrophylla Wall ex A. DC, leaf extract

Contraception

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 372-378

  Chattopadhyay, Debprasad ^a   Dungdung, Sandhya R ^b   Mandal, Asit B ^c   Majumder, Gopal C ^b  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^c CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Alstonia macrophylla; Antiswarming activity; Sperm immobilization; Ursolic acid

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ALSTONIA MACROPHYLLA EXTRACT; BIOFLAVONOID; BUTANOL; FLAVONOID; PLANT EXTRACT; SITOGLUSIDE; STEROL DERIVATIVE; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URSOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENCY; FRACTIONATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PURIFICATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 18144366194     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2004.11.006     Document Type: Article

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