Chenopodium album seed extract: a potent sperm-immobilizing agent both in vitro and in vivo

Contraception

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-78

  Kumar, Shrabanti ^a   Biswas, Shampa ^a   Mandal, Debayan ^a   Roy, Heramba Nandan ^a   Chakraborty, Smritinath ^a   Kabir, Syed N ^a   Banerjee, Sukdeb ^a   Mondal, Nirup B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Chenopodiaceae; Chenopodium album; Sperm immobilization; Sperm viability; Spermicide; Spermicide viability

Indexed keywords

CHENOPODIUM ALBUM EXTRACT; NONOXINOL 9; PLANT EXTRACT; SPERMICIDAL AGENT;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VIABILITY; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; IMMOBILIZED CELL; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MATING; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PLANT SEED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RABBIT; RAT; SPERMATOZOON; STAINING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UTERUS HORN; VAGINA CONTRACEPTION;

ANIMALS; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; CONTRACEPTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RABBITS; RATS; SEEDS; SPERM HEAD; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOCIDAL AGENTS; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845214805     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2006.07.015     Document Type: Article

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