Stage-Related increase in the proportion of apoptotic germ cells and altered frequencies of Stages in the spermatogenic cycle following gestational, lactational, and direct exposure of male rats to p-Nonylphenol

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 249-256

  McClusky, Leon M ^a   de Jager, C ^a   Bornman, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cleaved caspase 3; P nonylphenol; Spermatogenesis; Stages; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

4 NONYLPHENOL; CASPASE 3; DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GESTATION PERIOD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; RAT; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LACTATION; MALE; PHENOLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 33845718330     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfl141     Document Type: Article

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