Mucuna pruriens improves male fertility by its action on the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1934-1940

  Shukla, Kamla Kant ^a   Mahdi, Abbas Ali ^a   Ahmad, Mohammad Kaleem ^a   Shankhwar, Satya Narain ^a   Rajender, Singh ^b   Jaiswar, Shyam Pyari ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

catecholamines; dopamine; follicle stimulating hormone; Male infertility; Mucuna pruriens; testosterone

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; DOPA; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NORADRENALIN; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PLANT SEED; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STEROIDOGENESIS; VELVET BEAN;

ADULT; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; DOPAMINE; EPINEPHRINE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICINE, AYURVEDIC; MUCUNA; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PITUITARY GLAND; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70749086155     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.09.045     Document Type: Article

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