Evaluation of contraceptive activity of a mineralo-herbal preparation in Sprague-Dawley rats

Contraception

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 454-458

  Srivastava, Shobha Rani ^a   Kesarwani, Saurabh ^b   Keshri, Govind ^a   Singh, Man Mohan ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b BUNDELKHAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Contraceptive activity; Early postimplantation; Fertility; Implantation; Mineralo herbal preparation; Rat; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; GUM ARABIC; HERBACEOUS AGENT; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG POTENCY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SPERMATOGENESIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH SECRETION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CARUM; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; EMBELIA; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FRUIT; GENITALIA, MALE; GLYCYRRHIZA; MALE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANT ROOTS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEEDS; SENNA PLANT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TERMINALIA; TESTIS;

EID: 27944501498     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2005.05.026     Document Type: Article

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