Antispermatogenic, antiandrogenic activities of Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth bark extract in male albino rats

Phytomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 277-283

  Gupta, R S ^a   Kachhawa, J B S ^a   Chaudhary, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Albizia lebbeck; Antispermatogenic; Leydig cells; Sertoli cells; Sperm density; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

ALBIZZIA LEBBECK EXTRACT; ANTIANDROGEN; ANTISPERMATOGENIC AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PLANT EXTRACT; TESTOSTERONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALBIZZIA; ALBIZZIA LEBBECK; ANDROGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARK; CELL POPULATION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PACHYTENE; PHOSPHOLIPID BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALBIZZIA; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANTISPERMATOGENIC AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; FERTILITY; GENITALIA, MALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; METHANOL; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT BARK; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE;

ALBIZIA; ALBIZIA LEBBECK; ANIMALIA;

EID: 32844465605     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2004.11.008     Document Type: Article

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