Sexual stimulant effects of the aqueous and methanolic extracts from the leaves on Bersama engleriana in adult male rats

Pharmacologyonline

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 464-476

  Watcho, Pierre ^a   Mekemdjio, Amie ^a   Nguelefack, Télesphore Benoît ^a   Kamanyi, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Androgenic; Bersama engleriana; Rat; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

APHRODISIAC AGENT; BERSAMA ENGLERIANA EXTRACT; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; PLANT EXTRACT; PROGESTERONE; SAPONIN; STEROL; STEROL DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BERSAMA ENGLERIANA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PLANT LEAF; PROSTATE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTIS WEIGHT;

EID: 34249681284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18278620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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