Prolonged deleterious effects of neonatal handling on reproductive parameters of pubertal male rats

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 497-500

  Mazaro, Renata ^a   Lamano Carvalho, Lúcia Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Sertoli cells; Sperm production

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CELL COUNT; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL MATURATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; EVALUATION; GERM LAYER; HISTOMETRY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PUBERTY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRESS; TACTILE STIMULATION; TESTIS; THICKNESS; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EPIDIDYMIS; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645536441     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD04076     Document Type: Article

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