Prepubertal human chorionic gonadotropin injection affects postpubertal germ cell maturation and androgen production in rat testis

Urology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 571-574

  Chandrasekharam, V V S S ^a   Srinivas, M ^b   Das, S N ^b   Jha, P ^b   Bajpai, M ^b   Chaki, S P ^b   Misro, M M ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERM CELL; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0041733299     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00408-4     Document Type: Article

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