Effect of water extract of carica papaya seed on the germinal epithelium of the seminiferous tubules of sprague dawley rats

Acta Anatomica Nipponica

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 517-521

  Uche Nwachi, Edward O ^a   Ezeokoli, Daniel C ^a   Adogwa, Andrew O ^a   Offiah, Veronica N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Papaya seed extract; Seminiferous tubule epithelium

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; PAPAYA; PLANT SEED; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CARICA; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEEDS; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; WATER;

EID: 33747022380     PISSN: 00227722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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