Degeneration and restoration of spermatogenesis in relation to the changes in Leydig cell population following ethane dimethanesulfonate treatment in adult rats

Endocrine Regulations

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 209-215

  Bakalska, Mariana ^a   Atanassova, N ^a   Angelova, P ^a   Koeva, I ^b   Nikolov, B ^a   Davidoff, M ^c  

^a Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthropology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences   (Bulgaria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethane dimethanesulfonate; Germ cells; Leydig cells; Rats; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMESYLATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL KINETICS; CELL MATURATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; KINETICS; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MESYLATES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0035704726     PISSN: 12100668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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