Assessment of germ cell apoptosis in cryptorchid rats

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 183-186

  Koçak, Izzet ^a   Dündar, Mehmet ^a   Hekimgil, Mine ^a   Okyay, Pinar ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cryptorchidism; Germ cells; TUNEL method

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CALCIFICATION; CELL DEATH; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NEWBORN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS SIZE; TIME; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERMATOCYTES;

EID: 0036745951     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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