The kidney is extraordinarily sensitive to adverse fetal programming. Malnutrition, the most common form of developmental challenge, retards the formation of functional units, the nephrons. The ...

Other than condoms, the options for men who want to prevent their partners getting pregnant are limited. But a new study suggests that an oral contraceptive derived from a poison used on arrowheads in ...

After decades of research, development of a male birth control may now be one step closer. My colleagues and I are working on a promising lead for a male birth control pill based on ouabain—a plant ...

Here at the University of Minnesota, my colleagues and I have focused on nonhormonal contraception methods that work by targeting sperm motility – biology-speak for the sperms’ ability to move or swim ...

While contraceptives available today certainly have limitations, there are far more options available to women than there are to men. Now, a possible solution to this shortage of male birth control ...

A potential new form of male birth control contains a surprising active ingredient: ouabain, the active ingredient in the heart-stopping poison some African hunters traditionally used to dip their ...

Ouabain signaling through a plasma membrane can produce oscillations of intracellular calcium levels, resulting in translocation of the NF-κB transcription factor into the nucleus and gene activation.

A male birth control pill might be on its way, after scientists discovered a poison that inhibits sperm. CC0 Creative Commons A chemical compound that has been used as arrow poison could one day be ...

After decades of research, development of a male birth control may now be one step closer. My colleagues and I are working on a promising lead for a male birth control pill based on ouabain – a plant ...

A study of the effects of ouabain and propranolol on the spontaneous activity in the preganglionic sympathetic nerves to the cat heart showed that ouabain can produce both an inhibition and a ...