Morphological alterations to the testes of the offspring of rats caused by ethanol used during pregnancy

Cytobios

Volumn 1998, Issue 381, 1998, Pages 23-30

  Tuncer, M C ^a   Dogruyol S ^a   Hatipoglu E S ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Foetal alcohol syndrome; Histopathology; Testes

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042869080     PISSN: 00114529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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