Reversible antifertility effect of aqueous rhizome extract of Curcuma longa L. in male laboratory mice

Contraception

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 479-487

  Mishra, Raghav Kumar ^a   Singh, Shio Kumar ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Curcuma longa; Fertility; Mice; Seminiferous tubules; Spermatozoa; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CURCUMA LONGA EXTRACT; FRUCTOSE; MALE CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SIALIC ACID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RHIZOME; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; CURCUMA; FEMALE; FRUCTOSE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RHIZOME; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 65149099535     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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