Reproductive and cytogenetic toxicity of metronidazole in male mice

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 226-231

  El Nahas, Abeer F ^a,b   El Ashmawy, Ibrahim M ^a  

^a Alexandria University   (Egypt)

^b Department of Clinical Pathology   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACCESSORY SEX ORGAN; ANEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GENOTOXICITY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOPOIESIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MICRONUCLEUS; MITOSIS INDEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2442711300     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2004.pto940505.x     Document Type: Article

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