Impairment of male reproduction in adult rats exposed to hydroxyprogesterone caproate in utero

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 242-244

  Pushpalatha, T ^a   Ramachandra Reddy, P ^a   Sreenivasula Reddy, P ^a  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE CAPROATE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

HORMONE; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONES; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 2942702056     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-004-0521-0     Document Type: Article

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