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Evaluation of the Hydroethanolic Fruit Extract of Solanum aethiopicum (Garden Egg) on the Concentration of Reproductive Hormones, Sperm Parameters and Histology of the Testis of Male Wistar Rats.

 

 

Zabbey VZ; Adienbo OM; Ojeka SO; Dapper DV

 

 

Department of Human Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Science, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

 

 

E-mail: zabbeyvictor@ gmail. com (+2348038786260) ; ologhaguo.adienbo@ gmail. com (+2348030953240); sunday.ojeka@ uniport. edu.ng (+2348033854898); victor.dapper@ uniport. edu.ng  (+2348036776322)

 

 

 

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