A phase I clinical study of Andrographis paniculata fixed combination Kan Jang™ versus ginseng and valerian on the semen quality of healthy male subjects

Phytomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6-7, 2005, Pages 403-409

  Mkrtchyan, A ^a   Panosyan, V ^a   Panossian, A ^b   Wikman, G ^b   Wagner, H ^c  

^a Republican Medical Scientific Centre of Dermatology and Diseases Disseminated by Sexual Contacts   (Armenia)

^b Swedish Herbal Institute   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acanthopanax senticosus Maxim; Andrographis paniculata Nees; Clinical trial; Ginseng; Kan Jang ; Male fertility; Semen quality; Spermatogenesis; Valerian

Indexed keywords

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA EXTRACT; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS SENTICOSUS EXTRACT; GINSENG EXTRACT; KAN JANG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALERIAN;

ADULT; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS SENTICOSUS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE STERILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACANTHOPANAX; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANDROGRAPHIS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; PANAX; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEMEN; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALERIAN;

ACANTHOPANAX; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS SENTICOSUS; PANAX GINSENG; VALERIANA; VALERIANA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 19944366260     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2004.10.004     Document Type: Article

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