Lead exposure causes generation of reactive oxygen species and functional impairment in rat sperm

Toxicology

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 133-143

  Hsu, Ping Chi ^a,b   Liu, Ming Yie ^a   Hsu, Chao Chin ^a   Chen, Lih Yuh ^a   Guo, Yueliang Leon ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Lead toxicity; Reactive oxygen species; Sperm; Sperm oocyte penetration rate

Indexed keywords

LEAD; LEAD ACETATE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL LEVEL; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; LEAD; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030876515     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(97)00090-5     Document Type: Article

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