New frontiers in nonhormonal male contraception
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Reversible infertility in male mice after oral administration of alkylated imino sugars: a nonhormonal approach to male contraception.
During mammalian spermatogenesis, male germ cells undergo a dramatic transformation, which includes a change of shape, nuclear condensation, and development of specialised structures, such as an acrosome, and a flagellum with a mitochondrial sheath. We have found a previously undescribed pharmacological approach to intervene in these events. After oral administration of the alkylated imino suga...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Contraception
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0010-7824
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2010.03.017