Combined administration of low-dose gossypol acetic acid with desogestrel/mini-dose ethinylestradiol/testosterone undecanoate as an oral contraceptive for men

Contraception

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 203-211

  Yang, Zhan Jun ^a   Ye, Wei San ^a   Cui, Guang Hui ^a   Guo, Yan ^a   Xue, She Pu ^a  

^a Postdoctoral Research Station Institute of Basic Medicine Sciences CAMS and PUMC   (China)

Author keywords

Gossypol; Male contraception; Rat; Spermatogenesis; Steroids

Indexed keywords

DESOGESTREL PLUS ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GOSSYPOL ACETIC ACID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDIDYMIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOKALEMIA; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; VISCERA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, SYNTHETIC; DESOGESTREL; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FERTILITY; GOSSYPOL; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 4344667514     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2004.02.019     Document Type: Article

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