Efficacy of Morus nigra L. on reproduction in female Wistar rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 816-822

  de Queiroz, Graziela Tonioni ^a   Santos, Tatianne Rosa ^a   Macedo, Renato ^a   Peters, Vera Maria ^a   Leite, Magda Narciso ^a   da Silveira e Sá, Rita de Cássia ^b   Guerra, Martha de Oliveira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Morus nigra; Mulberry; Reproduction; Toxicology; Wistar rats

Indexed keywords

COUMARIN; ESTROGEN; FLAVONOID; MORUS NIGRA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; STEROID; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; FETUS RESORPTION; FETUS WEIGHT; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TOXICITY TESTING; VAGINA SMEAR; WEIGHT GAIN; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MORUS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; VAGINAL SMEARS;

MORUS (ANGIOSPERM); MORUS NIGRA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84856477036     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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