6. Emerson Luiz Botelho Lourenco et al., (2014), pronounced that the (anti)estrogenic and (anti)androgenic activity of the hydroethanolic …show more content…
Harisha and Swamy (2012), examined to evaluate the claimed antifertility effect of the plant on male and female by booming out phamacological studies with the whole plant extract. Air dried plant of Melothria heterophylla (Lour.) Cogn was extracted using hydro alcohol. Extract was managed orally to Male wistar rats for 45 days. Effect of extract on reproductive organs, sperm count, serum testosterone, testicular cholesterol and alkaline phosphates levels were assessed and changes in testicular histology was associated with the control rats. Progestogenic activity assay was achieved by pregnancy maintenance test in female Sprague dawley rats. Clauberg Assay (endometrial proliferation) was performed on female imatured rabbits. Pregnancy maintenance and clauberg assay was achieved to investigate the probable progestational or antiprogestational mechanism of antifertility in immature female rabbits. Melothria heterophylla extract, when managed orally at a dose of 200, 400,600 mg/kg body weight, it exhibited reduction in the weight of testis, seminal vesicles, epididymis, sperm count, and serum testosterone. Reduction in testicular cholesterol and alkaline phosphates level, when compared to the control. The histological examination of testis exposed that distorted seminiferous tubules with disorganized population of spermatogenic and supporting cells sever hypercellularity of leydig cells. Pregnancy conservation was assessed and it is progestogenic. Clauberg assay in immature it shown progestational and anti-progestational