Effect of Cr(V) on reproductive organ morphology and sperm parameters: An experimental study in mice

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Pereira, Maria De Lourdes ^a   Das Neves, Ricardo Pires ^a   Oliveira, Helena ^a   Santos, Teresa Margarida ^b   De Jesus, Júlio Pedrosa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENITAL SYSTEM; GERM CELL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; CHROMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 23944463762     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-4-9     Document Type: Article

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