High doses of nandrolone decanoate reduce volume of testis and length of seminiferous tubules in rats

APMIS

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 122-125

  Noorafshan, Ali ^a,b   Karbalay Doust, Saied ^a   Ardekani, Fakhrodin Mesbah ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Nandrolone decanoate; Stereology; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; NANDROLONE DECANOATE; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; EVALUATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; STEREOMETRY; TESTIS SIZE; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; NANDROLONE; RATS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTIS;

EID: 14844305676     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2005.apm1130205.x     Document Type: Article

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