Effect of long-term treatment with aromatase inhibitor on testicular function of adult male bonnet monkeys (M. radiata)

Steroids

Volumn 63, Issue 7-8, 1998, Pages 414-420

  Shetty, Gunapala ^a   Krishnamurthy, Hanumanthappa ^a   Krishnamurthy, Hegganahalli N ^a   Bhatnagar, Ajay S ^b   Moudgal, Nuggehali R ^a  

^a Dept Molec Repro Devmt Genet I ^*

^b CIBA GEIGY LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Primate; Spermatogenesis; Testicular function

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; CHROMATIN; DDT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACACA RADIATA; MALE; NITRILES; SEMEN; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 0345596371     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-128X(98)00042-7     Document Type: Article

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