Can curcumin provide an ideal contraceptive?

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-123

  Naz, Rajesh K ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; CURCUMIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; CURCUMA; CURCUMIN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SPICES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CURCUMA LONGA; MURINAE;

EID: 79951611853     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21276     Document Type: Article

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