Reversible changes in the antifertility induced by Aegle marmelos in male albino rats

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 240-246

  Chauhan, Alka ^a   Agarwal, Meera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Aegle marmelos; Leydig cell; Recovery; Sertoli cell; Testicular cell population; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AEGLE MARMELOS EXTRACT; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE;

AEGLE MARMELOS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AEGLE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; CYTOPLASM; ETHANOL; FERTILITY; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 57349149266     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19396360802516856     Document Type: Article

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