Testicular microvascular blood flow: Alteration after Leydig cell eradication and ischemia but not experimental varicocele

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 239-248

  Turner, T T ^a   Caplis, Lisa ^a   Miller, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

rat; testicular torsion; Vasomotion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ISCHEMIA; LEYDIG CELL; MICROVASCULARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS BLOOD FLOW; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE METABOLISM; VARICOCELE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; EPINEPHRINE; HEAT; ISCHEMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MESYLATES; MICROCIRCULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; SYMPATHOMIMETICS; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0029954703     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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