Diminished decondensation and DNA synthesis in activated sperm from rats treated with cyclophosphamide

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 19-26

  Sawyer, Dennis E ^a   Brown, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin decondensation; Cyclophosphamide; Rat sperm activation assay; Sperm DNA damage; Xenopus laevis egg extract

Indexed keywords

CELL EXTRACT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EPIDIDYMIS; GERM CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS WEIGHT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOSOL; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; OVUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034599651     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(99)00189-7     Document Type: Article

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