Effect of Mucuna pruriens on semen profile and biochemical parameters in seminal plasma of infertile men

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 627-635

  Ahmad, Mohammad Kaleem ^a   Mahdi, Abbas Ali ^a   Shukla, Kamla Kant ^a   Islam, Najmul ^b   Jaiswar, Shyam Pyari ^a   Ahmad, Sohail ^c  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Department of Pharmacology   (India)

Author keywords

antioxidant vitamins; lipid peroxides; lipids; Male infertility; Mucuna pruriens; seminal plasma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; APHRODISIAC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; FRUCTOSE; LIPID PEROXIDASE; MUCUNA PRURIENS EXTRACT; PHOSPHOLIPID; RETINOL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VELVET BEAN; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUCUNA; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEEDS; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 46949097758     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1314     Document Type: Article

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