Pregnancy interceptive activity of the roots of Calotropis gigantea Linn. in rats

Contraception

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 318-322

  Srivastava, Shobha Rani ^a   Keshri, Govind ^a   Bhargavan, Biju ^a   Singh, Chandan ^a   Singh, Man Mohan ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Antagonistic activities; Calotropis gigantea; Estrogen agonistic; Pregnancy interceptive activity; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BUTANOL; CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA EXTRACT; CHLOROFORM; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; HEXANE; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYSORBATE 80; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY WEIGHT; CALOTROPIS; CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA; CONTRACEPTION; CORPUS LUTEUM; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; MALE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PREGNANCY; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CALOTROPIS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT ROOTS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33847714336     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

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