The antiviral drug ribavirin reversibly affects the reproductive parameters in the male Wistar rat

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 65-71

  Narayana, K ^a   D'Souza, Urban J A ^b   Narayan, Prashanthi ^a   Kumar, Ganesh ^c  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^c International Center for Health Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

Antiviral drugs; Cytotoxicity; Germ cells; Gonadotoxicity; Testis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

RIBAVIRIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; RIBAVIRIN; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 20944440411     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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