Effect of dexamethasone on germ cell apoptosis in the contralateral testis after testicular ischemia-reperfusion injury in the rat

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 1111-1117

  Mogilner, Jorge G ^a   Elenberg, Yigal ^a   Lurie, Michael ^a   Shiloni, Eitan ^a   Coran, Arnold G ^b   Sukhotnik, Igor ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

apoptosis; dexamethasone; germ cells; ischemia; Testis

Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS ISCHEMIA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; DEXAMETHASONE; GERM CELLS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 33645745352     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.10.021     Document Type: Article

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