Testicular toxicity of nitrofurazone causing germ cell apoptosis in rats

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 297-305

  Shoda, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Yasuhara, Kazuo ^b   Moriyasu, Matsuko ^c   Takahashi, Tadakazu ^a   Uneyama, Chikako ^b   Hirose, Masao ^b   Mitsumori, Kunitoshi ^b,d  

^a Torii Nihonbashi Building   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Panapharm Laboratories Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Nitrofurazone; Rat; Sertoli cells; Testicular toxicity

Indexed keywords

NITROFURAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; APOPTOSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NITROFURAZONE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS;

EID: 0034922342     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002040100231     Document Type: Article

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