{"title":"Growth-Suppressing Effect of Calotropis procera (Giant Milkweed) on Body Weight and the Male Reproductive Organs of Wistar Rats","authors":"A. Akinloye, M. Abatan, S. Onwuka, B. Oke","doi":"10.4314/TV.V20I3.4492","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Keywords: Calotropis procera, epididymis, prostate gland, seminal vesicles, testes \nThe effect of oral administration of 2mg/gm-body weight of aqueous extract of Calotropis procera on the body weights and reproductive organ weights, in fifty male Wistar rats was investigated. Body weight showed significant decrease (P \nTrop. Vet. Vol. 20(3) 2002: 132-138","PeriodicalId":428776,"journal":{"name":"Tropical veterinarian","volume":"75 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tropical veterinarian","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/TV.V20I3.4492","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Keywords: Calotropis procera, epididymis, prostate gland, seminal vesicles, testes
The effect of oral administration of 2mg/gm-body weight of aqueous extract of Calotropis procera on the body weights and reproductive organ weights, in fifty male Wistar rats was investigated. Body weight showed significant decrease (P
Trop. Vet. Vol. 20(3) 2002: 132-138