Evaluation of the potential antifertility effect of fenugreek seeds in male and female rabbits

Contraception

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 301-306

  Kassem, Amira ^a   Al Aghbari, Abdulwali ^a   Al Habori, Molham ^a   Al Mamary, Mohammed ^a  

^a SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Antifertility; Fenugreek seeds; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEEDING; FEMALE; FENUGREEK; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFERTILITY; INTERSTITIUM; LITTER SIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RABBIT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; INFERTILITY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PROGESTERONE; RABBITS; SEEDS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERM COUNT; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE; TESTIS; TRIGONELLA; UTERUS;

EID: 32044461974     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2005.08.020     Document Type: Article

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