Interstitial orchitis with impaired steroidogenesis and spermatogenesis in the testes of rabbits infected with an attenuated strain of myxoma virus

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 161-169

  Fountain, S ^b   Holland, M K ^a   Hinds, L A ^a   Janssens, P A ^b   Kerr, P J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SPERM ANTIBODY; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMITIS; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORCHITIS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE DEGENERATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; MYXOMA VIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; POXVIRIDAE;

EID: 0030747279     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1100161     Document Type: Article

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