Contraception
Volume 79, Issue 6 , Pages 439-444 , June 2009

Study on a novel copper-containing composite for contraception

  • Juan Li

      Affiliations

    • State Key Laboratory of Mould Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
    • ,
  • Jinping Suo

      Affiliations

    • State Key Laboratory of Mould Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 2787544307; fax: +86 2787559105.
    • ,
  • Xunbin Huang

      Affiliations

    • Family Planning Research Institute, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, PR China
    • ,
  • Lintao Jia

      Affiliations

    • State Key Laboratory of Mould Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China

Received 21 November 2008 ,Revised 31 December 2008 ,Accepted 4 January 2009.

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☆ The authors are grateful for the financial support from the National Support Project (Grant No. 2006BA103B03) and Committee of Family Planning of Hubei Province.

PII: S0010-7824(09)00003-1

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.01.002

Contraception
Volume 79, Issue 6 , Pages 439-444 , June 2009

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