Adverse effects of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) on reproductive function in adult male rats

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 232, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 809-813

  Nusier, Mohamad K ^a   Bataineh, Hameed N ^a   Daradkah, Haytham M ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b Jarash University   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Antifertility; Contraception; Male rat; Rosmarinus officinalis; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS RESORPTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PREPUCE; PROSTATE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; ROSEMARY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; CONTRACEPTION; FERTILITY; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROSMARINUS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

RATTUS; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS;

EID: 34249747342     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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