Neonatal exposure of male rats to estradiol benzoate causes rete testis dilation and backflow impairment of spermatogenesis

Anatomical Record

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-33

  Aceitero, Julian ^a,b   Llanero, Marcos ^a   Parrado, Rafael ^a   Peña, Esteban ^a   Lopez Beltran, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distension; Estradiol; Impairment; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Tubule; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL REGULATION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETE TESTIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ESTRADIOL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETE TESTIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031705398     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199809)252:1<17::AID-AR3>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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