Toluene inhalation induced epididymal sperm dysfunction in rats

Toxicology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 193-205

  Ono, Atsushi ^a   Kawashima, Kunio ^a   Sekita, Kiyoshi ^a   Hirose, Akihiko ^a   Ogawa, Yukio ^a   Saito, Minoru ^a   Naito, Katsushi ^a   Yasuhara, Kazuo ^a   Kaneko, Toyozo ^a   Furuya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Inoue, Tohru ^a   Kurokawa, Yuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epididymal sperm maturation; Fertility; Inhalation; Toluene abuse

Indexed keywords

TOLUENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; CHOLINESTERASES; CRICETINAE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLVENTS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTOSTERONE; TOLUENE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 0032712065     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(99)00120-1     Document Type: Article

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