The effect of spermatic vessel ligation on testicular nitric oxide levels and germ cell-specific apoptosis in rat testis

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 459-466

  Taneli, Fatma ^a   Vatansever, Seda ^a   Ulman, Cevval ^a   Yilmaz, Ömer ^a   Giray, Gülşen ^a   Genç, Abdülkadir ^a   Taneli, Can ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Fowler Stephens orchiopexy; Nitric oxide; Testis

Indexed keywords

CONTROL; EXPERIMENTS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; NITROGEN OXIDES; SIMULATION; SURGERY;

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; FOWLER-STEPHENS MANEUVER; GRIESS METHOD; IMMUNOSTAINING; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SPERMATIC VESSEL LIGATION; TESTES;

MEDICINE;

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOWLER STEPHENS MANEUVER; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 13544266412     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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