Vitamin E deficiency causes incomplete spermatogenesis and affects the structural differentiation of epithelial cells of the epididymis in the rat

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 266-288

  Bensoussan, Karen ^a   Morales, Carlos R ^a   Hermo, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Germ cells; Principal cells; Testis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

ACROSOME; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GERM CELL; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; VITAMIN E; VITAMIN E DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0031800534     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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