Hormone pretreatment enhances recovery of spermatogenesis in rats after neutron irradiation

Radiation Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-56

  Wilson, Gene ^a   Kangasniemi, Marko ^a   Meistrich, Marvin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DNA; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; MALE; NEUTRON RADIATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG IMPLANTS; ESTRADIOL; MALE; NEUTRONS; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0033026345     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3580048     Document Type: Article

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