Reproductive toxicity assessment of chronic dietary exposure to soy isoflavones in male rats

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 605-611

  Faqi, Ali S ^a   Johnson, William D ^a   Morrissey, Robert L ^b   McCormick, David L ^a  

^a IIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Pathology Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult males; Genistein; Isoflavone; Testes weight and sperm parameters

Indexed keywords

DAIDZEIN; GENISTEIN; GLYCITEIN; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; EPIDIDYMIS; EVALUATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SOYBEAN; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; EATING; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; SOYBEANS; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATIDS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2342450536     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2004.02.013     Document Type: Article

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