Recommended approaches for the evaluation of testicular and epididymal toxicity

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 507-520

  Lanning, Lynda L ^a   Creasy, Dianne M ^b   Chapin, Robert E ^c   Mann, Peter C ^d   Barlow, Norman J ^e   Regan, Karen S ^f   Goodman, Dawn G ^g  

^a BioReliance Corporation   (United States)

^b Huntingdon Life Sciences New Jersey   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d Experimental Pathology Laboratory North East ^*  (United States)

^e CIIT CENTERS FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^f Regan Path/Tox Services   (United States)

^g UK   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixation; Histomorphology; Histopathology; Methods; Testis evaluation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISSECTION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDIDYMIS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STAINING; TESTIS; TOXICOLOGY; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBEDDING; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPHOTOMETRY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; TISSUE FIXATION;

ANIMALS; DISSECTION; EPIDIDYMIS; GUIDELINES; MALE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STAINING AND LABELING; TESTIS; TISSUE EMBEDDING; TOXICOLOGY; ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036628930     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01926230290105695     Document Type: Review

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