Effect of Palestinian honey on spermatogenesis in rats

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 799-802

  Abdul Ghani, Abdul Salam ^a   Dabdoub, Nabil ^b   Muhammad, Rateb ^b   Abdul Ghani, Rula ^a   Qazzaz, Munir ^b  

^a AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Honey; Lactate dehydrogenase; Sorbitol dehydrogenase; Sperm count; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DRINKING WATER; IDITOL DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EPIDIDYMIS; HEART WEIGHT; HONEY; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPLEEN WEIGHT; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; ARABS; EPIDIDYMIS; HONEY; L-IDITOL 2-DEHYDROGENASE; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 57349179260     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2008.0085     Document Type: Article

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