Effects of corticosterone on reproduction in male sprague-dawley rats

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 799-805

  Lerman, Steven A ^a,b   Miller, Glen K ^a   Bohlman, Kelly ^a   Albaladejo, Veronique ^a   Léonard, Jean François ^a   Devas, Vipul ^a   Clark, Robert L ^a  

^a SANOFI   (France)

^b Drug Safety Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid; Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid; Male rat; Reproductive toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; FERTILITY; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; FERTILITY; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0031282716     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6238(97)00063-4     Document Type: Article

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