Reproductive toxicity of lapachol in adult male wistar rats submitted to short-term treatment

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 658-662

  Sá, Rita De Cássia Da Silveira ^a,b   Guerra, Martha De Oliveira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^b Campus Universitário ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Lapachol; Prostate; Seminal vesicle; Testis; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

LAPACHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; GAMETE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PROSTATE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; MALE; NAPHTHOQUINONES; ORGAN SIZE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOZOA; TABEBUIA;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 34447521556     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2141     Document Type: Article

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