Effect of Punica granatum (pomegranate) on sperm production in male rats treated with lead acetate

Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 495-502

  Leiva, Karina Paola ^a,b   Rubio, Julio ^a   Peralta, Frank ^a   Gonzales, Gustavo F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^b San Ignacio de Monterrico   (Peru)

Author keywords

antioxidant activity; daily sperm production; Lead acetate; pomegranate ethanolic extract; sperm number; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; LEAD ACETATE; PUNICA GRANATUM EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERICARP; POMEGRANATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CELL COUNT; EPIDIDYMIS; FRUIT; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MITOSIS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PUNICACEAE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

LYTHRACEAE; PUNICA GRANATUM; RATTUS;

EID: 79958226303     PISSN: 15376516     EISSN: 15376524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15376516.2011.555789     Document Type: Article

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