Experiment 68610
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Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Prunus africana (ROSACEAE) |
| Citation | CLAVERT,A: CRANZ,C: RIFFAUD,JP: MARQUER,C: LACOLLE JY: BOLLACK,C:. (1986). EFFECTS OF AN EXTRACT OF THE BARK OF PYGEUM AFRICANUM (V.1326) ON PROSTATIC SECRETIONS IN THE RAT AND IN MAN.. 20(5) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | MEN HAVING REDUCED PROSTATIC SECRETIONS WERE TESTED. SPERMATOGRAMS PERFORMED ON POST-TREATMENT EJACULATES SHOWED INCREASED VOLUME OF SECRETIONS. PROTEIN CONTENT, ACID PHOSPHATASES AND PROSTATE-DERIVED PROTEIN INCREASED. THE INCREASES WERE HIGHER IN MEN WITH LOW IGA LEVELS IN THE EJACULATE. THE AUTHORS THUS REGARD THE EXTRACT AS BEING USEFUL FOR PROSTATITIS BUT NOT FOR INFECTIOUS CONDITIONS. |
| Number | 2 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | TYPE EXT NOT STATED |
| Gender | MALE |