The penetration of chromium-EDTA from blood plasma into various compartments of rat testes as an indicator of function of the blood-testis barrier after exposure of the testes to heat

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 125-133

  Setchell, B P ^a   Tao, L ^a   Zupp, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETATE CHROMIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEATING; INTERSTITIUM; LIGATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETE TESTIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS SIZE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030070836     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1060125     Document Type: Article

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