Protecting spermatogonia from apoptosis induced by doxorubicin using the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analog leuprorelin

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 72-77

  Endo, Fumiyasu ^a,b   Manabe, Fumio ^a   Takeshima, Hitoshi ^a   Akaza, Hideyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TSUKUBA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Doxorubicin; Leuprorelin; Spermatogonia; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; LEUPRORELIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; EVALUATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOXORUBICIN; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LEUPROLIDE; MALE; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SPERMATOGONIA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0037306198     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2042.2003.00572.x     Document Type: Article

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