Chronic administration of 4-tert-octylphenol to adult male rats causes shrinkage of the testes and male accessory sex organs, disrupts spermatogenesis, and increases the incidence of sperm deformities

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 267-277

  Boockfor, Fredric R ^a   Blake, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 TERT OCTYLPHENOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GAMETOGENESIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIDIDYMIS; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOLS; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030768008     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.2.267     Document Type: Article

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