Experiment 1155549
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | GASTRIC INTUBATION |
| Organism | Tripterygium wilfordii (CELASTRACEAE) |
| Citation | QIAN,SZ: ZHONG,CQ: XU,Y:. (1986). EFFECT OF TRIPTERYGIUM WILFORDII HOOK.F. ON THE FERTILITY OF RATS.. 33(2) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | DAILY DOSING, SIX DAYS PER WEEK, FOR 8 WEEKS. ALL TREATED ANIMALS BECAME INFERTILE. THE BODY WEIGHT WAS NORMAL AND THE MATING BEHAVIOR WAS PRESENT. THERE WAS A DRASTIC DECREASE IN THE VIABILITY OF THE EPIDIDYMAL SPERMATOZOA WHILE THE DECREASE IN SPERM DENSITY WAS LESS MARKED. SEMINIFEROUS TUBULAR DAMAGE WAS MINIMAL AND NO PERCEPTIBLE CHANGE WAS OBSERVED IN THE LEYDIG AND THE SERTOLI CELLS. ALL OTHER PARAMETERS EXAMINED, INCLUDING THE SERUM TESTOSTERONE LEVELS AND THE HISTOLOGY OF ORGANS WERE NORMAL. |
| Dose amount | 10.0 MG |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | RAT |
| Per unit | KG |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | TOTAL GLYCOSIDE FRACTION |
| Gender | MALE |