Mucuna pruriens and Its Major Constituent L-DOPA Recover Spermatogenic Loss by Combating ROS, Loss of Mitochondrial Membrane Potential and Apoptosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Singh, Akhand Pratap ^a   Sarkar, Saumya ^a   Tripathi, Muktanand ^a   Rajender, Singh ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LEVODOPA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DNA CONTENT; DRUG MECHANISM; GERM CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT SEED; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VELVET BEAN;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FERTILITY AGENTS, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEVODOPA; MALE; MEDICINE, AYURVEDIC; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MUCUNA; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; MUCUNA PRURIENS; RATTUS;

EID: 84872823355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054655     Document Type: Article

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