Molecular mechanism on the testicular toxicity of 1,3-dinitrobenzene in Sprague-Dawley rats: Preliminary study

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 729-736

  Muguruma, Masako ^a   Yamazaki, Masaki ^a   Okamura, Miwa ^a   Moto, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Kashida, Yoko ^a   Mitsumori, Kunitoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1,3 dinitrobenzene; Germ cell apoptosis; Rat; Testicular toxicity

Indexed keywords

1,3 DINITROBENZENE; ANTIBODY; CASPASE 3; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STAINING; TESTIS; TOXICITY TESTING; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; DINITROBENZENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 28444435897     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-005-0006-8     Document Type: Article

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