Fertility and unilateral undescended testis in the rat model III: Ultrastructural changes in the contralateral descended testis

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 276-280

  Nambirajan, L ^a   Agarwala, S ^a   Dinda, A K ^a   Mitra, D K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Contralateral descended testis; Rats; Ultrastructural changes; Unilateral undescended testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FERTILITY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS;

EID: 0036589659     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003830100684     Document Type: Article

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