Impaired sperm characteristics in postpubertal growth-hormone-deficient dwarf (dw/dw) rats

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-76

  Gravance, C G ^a,b   Breier, B H ^a   Vickers, M H ^a   Casey, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth hormone deficiency; Rat; Spermatozoa morphology; Spermatozoa motility

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; DWARFISM; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILITY; GENETICS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VAS DEFERENS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DWARFISM; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILITY; GROWTH HORMONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031231279     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4320(97)00019-5     Document Type: Article

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