Effects of propylthiouracil on testicular tissue in undescended testes of newborn rats

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 264-268

  Karabulut, Ramazan ^a,b   Türkyilmaz, Zafer ^a   Sönmez, Kaan ^a   Demiroǧullari, Billur ^a   Özen, I Onur ^a   Poyraz, Aylar ^a   Başaklar, A Can ^a   Kale, Nuri ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism; Transient hypothyroidism; Undescended testes

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; LIOTHYRONINE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DRUG EFFECT; JOHNSEN TUBULAR BIOPSY SCORE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RANK SUM TEST; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCROTUM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIMETABOLITES; BIOPSY; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; MALE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTOSTERONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749988692     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094820     Document Type: Article

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