Reversible antifertility effect of aqueous leaf extract of Allamanda cathartica L. in male laboratory mice

Andrologia

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 337-345

  Singh, A ^a   Singh, S K ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Allamanda cathartica; Mouse fertility; Seminiferous tubule; Spermatozoa; Testes; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA EXTRACT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; PLANT EXTRACT; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; FERTILITY; HISTOLOGY; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; APOCYNACEAE; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; FERTILITY; FRUCTOSE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 57149144550     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2008.00866.x     Document Type: Article

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