Title
Preliminary Evaluation Effect of Lepidium meyenii Walp on the embryonic development of mouse
Other title
Evaluación preliminar del efecto de Lepidium meyenii Walp en el desarrollo embrionario de ratón
Date Issued
01 January 2004
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
The "maca", Lepidium meyenii Walp, is a peruvian native plant and resource with a wide nutritional value. Several investigations had been realized in the last decade to probe the "maca" effects on the mammals fertility. In this work, we assessed the effects of lyophilizade aqueous extract of L. meyenii on the preimplantational embryos of Mus musculus. Two concentrations of 0 g/Kg (control group) and 1 g/Kg of body weight of lyophilizade aqueous extract were supplied to two groups of pregnant female mice, respectively from day 1 to day 4 of pregnancy. The stage of development, conditions and embryo morphology were evaluated. We found that lyophilizade aqueous extract of "maca" cause no toxics effects on the normal development of the preimplantational mouse embryos.
Start page
103
End page
106
Volume
11
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Farmacología, Farmacia
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-76449090430
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
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