Testicular vascular permeability: Effects of experimental lesions associated with impaired testis function

Journal of Urology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1078-1082

  Turner, T T ^a,b   Caplis, L A ^a   Rhoades, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

capillary permeability; rats; testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BLOOD FLOW; TESTIS TORSION; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0030033249     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)66395-X     Document Type: Article

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