Drugs Contraceptive

Mestranol an estrogenic component of oral contraceptive drugs... 

S. Ramcharan, R. A. PeUegtin, R. M. Ray, and co-workers. The Walnut Creek Contraceptive Drug Study A Prospective Study of the Side Effects of Oral Contracptives, Vol. 3, U.S. Dept, of Health and Human Services, Government Printing Office, 1981. 

Saw palmetto (cabbage palm, fan palm, scrub palm) Serenoa repens %mptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia Generally well-tolerated occasional gastrointestinal effects May interact with hormones such as oral contraceptive drugs and hormone replacement therapy. 

D Arcy, RF. (1986) Drug Interactions with oral contraceptives. Drug Intell Clin Pharm 20 353-362. 

Arthes FG, Masi AT. Myocardial infarction in younger women. Associated clinical features and relationship to use of oral contraceptive drugs. Chest 1976 70(5) 574-83. 

Hoffmann H, Moore C, Kovacs L, Teichmann AT, Klinger G, Graser T, Oettel M. Alternatives for the replacement of ethinylestradiol by natural 17 beta-estradiol in dienogest-containing oral contraceptives. Drugs Today 1999 35(Suppl C) 105-13. 

Sarkar NN. The potential of mifepristone (RU-486) as an emergency contraceptive drug. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2005 84 309-316. 

Wiegratz I, Kuhl H. Long-cycle treatment with oral contraceptives. Drugs. 2004 64 2447-2462. 

Fazio A. Oral contraceptive drug interactions important considerations. South Med J 1991 84 997-1002. 

Deeming, S. B. and Weber, C. W., Hair analysis of trace minerals in human subjects as influenced by age, sex, and contraceptive drugs. Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 31,1175,1978. 

Orellana-Alcalde JM, Dominguez JP (1966) Jaundice and oral contraceptive drugs. Lancet 2 1278-1280. 

Back DJ, Breckenridge AM, Crawford FE, Maciver M, Orme ML, Rowe PH. In ter individual variation and drug interactions with hormonal steroid contraceptives. Drugs 1981 21 46-61. 

Back DJ, Grimmer SF, Orme ML, Proudlove C, Mann RD, Breckemidge AM. Evaluation of Committee on Safety of Medicines yellow card reports on oral contraceptive-drug interactions with anticonvulsants and antibiotics. Br J Qin Pharmacol 1988 25(5) 527-32. 

McDaniel PA, Caldroney RD. Griseofulvin-oral contraceptive. Drug Intell Chn Pharm 1986 20 291. 

Reduction of (r.yS-unsaturated ketones results in reduction not only of the ketone group but of the carbon-carbon double bond as well. Steroidal drugs often fall into this class, including norethindrone. a synthetic progestin found in many oral contraceptive drug combinations. In women, the major plasma and urinary metabolite of norethindrone is the 3jS,Sy3-tetrahydro derivative. ... 

Wall, M.E. (1980). Status of Raw Materials For Productions of Oral Contraceptives in Indonesia. Paper presented in Workshop of biotechnology of Steroid Compounds It Contraceptive Drugs, Jakarta, Des., 15 - 17. 

More studies of such effects are needed, especially for the combined effect of two or more sources of variation. Is, for example, the combined effect of alcohol and contraceptive drugs on y-glutamyltransferase activity in serum less than, equal to, or greater than the sum of their individual effects ... 

Fisch, K., and Freedman, S. H., Oral contraceptives and the red blood cell, in The Walnut Creek Contraceptive Drug Study (S. Ramcharan, ed.) 31-46. Vol. 11, Dhew Publication, Walnut Creek, California. 1975. 

Carl Djerassi, who helped pioneer oral contraceptive drugs, has repeatedly stated in the most convincing terms that this is precisely what has already happened in the field of fertility control research (2). 

Describe the efficacy of contraceptive drugs in patients under carbamazepine therapy. 

As carbamazepine induces hepatic enzymes, including those that metabolize contraceptive drugs, the efficacy of these drugs may be reduced. 

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