Developmental exposure of male germ cells to 5-azacytidine results in abnormal preimplantation development in rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1155-1162

  Doerksen, Tonia ^b   Trasler, Jacquetta M ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 AZACYTIDINE; AZACITIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEATH; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; AZACITIDINE; BODY WEIGHT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; SPLEEN; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029858377     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.5.1155     Document Type: Article

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