Journal of Endocrinology and Reproduction

K. Banerji Tapan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1069, US

Abstract

Lithium (Li) is a well-known drug in clinical psychiatry and is widely used in the treatment of affective disorders, especially bipolar patients with manic-depressive psychosis. A series of experimental studies from our laboratories over the last many years, however, have shown that the administration of this anti-manic drug, either acutely or on a chronic basis, leads to a number of adverse reproductive effects.

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