Postweaning exposure to gossypol results in epididymis-specific effects throughout puberty and adulthood in rats

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 220-228

  Romualdo, Genair Silva ^a   Klinefelter, Gary R ^b   Kempinas, Wilma De Grava ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Male contraception; Male reproduction; Sexual development; Sperm maturation

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; FRUCTOSE; GOSSYPOL; PROTEIN E; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PUBERTY; RAT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TARGET ORGAN; TISSUE LEVEL; VAS DEFERENS; WEANING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; EPIDIDYMIS; GENITALIA, MALE; GOSSYPOL; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROTEINS; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERM COUNT; WEANING;

EID: 0036179758     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2002.tb02618.x     Document Type: Article

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