Germinal cell alterations associated with sustained delivery of testosterone enanthate in adult male rats

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 33, Issue , 1997, Pages 161-165

  Varnado, Monique ^a   Tucci, Michelle ^a   Cason, Zelma ^a   Mohamed, Adel ^a   Benghuzzi, Hamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens; Azoospermia; Bioceramics; Sustained delivery; TCPL; Testes

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; GONADOTROPIN; LYSINE; PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BONE GROWTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; GERM LAYER; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE; TESTIS WEIGHT; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CERAMICS; DRUG IMPLANTS; LYSINE; MALE; PHOSPHATES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031418936     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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