Effect of vasectomy on the seminiferous tubule boundary zone in the Albino Swiss rat

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 277-286

  Dobson, C C ^a   Reid, O ^a   Bennett, N K ^a   McDonald, S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal lamina; Basement membrane; Flutamide; Leukocytes; Orchitis; Sertoli cell; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; VASECTOMY;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUTAMIDE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; VASECTOMY;

EID: 0033917735     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2353(2000)13:4<277::AID-CA8>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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