Cations as spermicidal agents

Kishu Tripathi¹*, S. N. Pandeya¹ and Shobja Kulshreshtha²

¹Saroj Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow (India).

²Department of Pharmacology, S.N. Medical College, Agra (India)

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ABSTRACT:

Cations like Ni2+,Cu2+,Cd2+,Pd2+,Zn2+,Fe3+,Fe2+ may affect the sperm count, motility, viability, velocity, percentage of motility, protein expression, acrosome reaction fertilizing capacity, preventing implantation, receptor binding, enzyme system, capillary permeability, intratesticular level, Hypothalmic-Pituitary-Testicular Axis, etc and thereby, act as spermicidal.

KEYWORDS:

Cations; spermicidal agents