Tests on rats show blocking connections to cells which "nurture" developing sperm makes the animals infertile.
The US and Italian researchers say they used relatively low doses of the molecule and found no obvious side effects, and the effect was reversible...
When sperm are being made in the body in a process called spermatogenesis they sit next to other cells, called Sertoli cells, which nurse and help them grow.
If the connection between these two cell types is broken, infertility can result in men.
In the study authors used a recently developed molecule called Adjudin to dislodge the developing sperm from the Sertoli cells.
The next step will be testing the new drug on humans. Any takers, gentlemen?
11 comments:
Me no guinea pig.
".... Any takers, gentlemen?"
Not many men will be daring enough to participate in a male contraceptive drug trial test.
It may be reversible on the rats but what if it won't on me?!!!
I still have seeds to sow.
Does the trial involves free ladies for guys to try to impregnate???
Beats wearing condoms but I wouldn't try it until it is proven 100% safe so that means some other men have to do the trials first.
I doubt the scientists can get a drug out to the market because:
i) problem getting men to do trials
ii) men do not like the idea of taking contraceptive pills
iii) men always believe that ladies should be taking pills instead of them because the risk is more on their side
iv) men cannot be trusted to take their pills daily.
This is good for partners. They will have more choices when it comes to deciding on what type of contraceptives.
Would be funny for a girl to ask the guy if he is on the pill tonight. Hahaha!
Researches in California back in 2003 revealed that men consistently rated a male pill as more against nature, more of a bother, more harmful, and more against their beliefs than a female pill. Even educated, middle-class men are unwilling to assume the risks and inconveniences associated with effective contraception, yet they still expect their female partners to do so.
good for those guys who like to shoot in.
It is always the female's job. Kekeke.
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