Ultrastructural study of severe testicular damage following acute scrotal thermal injury

Burns

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 328-333

  Sakallioglu, Ayse Ebru ^a   Ozdemir, Behiye Handan ^a   Basaran, Ozgur ^a   Nacar, Ahmet ^a   Suren, Dinc ^a   Haberal, Mehmet A ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Burns; Scrotum; Testicular damage

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACUTE SCROTUM; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BURN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDERMIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCISION; ISOLATED ORGAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCROTUM; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS INJURY; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMAL INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BURNS; DNA BREAKS, SINGLE-STRANDED; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCROTUM; TESTIS;

EID: 33947282147     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2006.07.020     Document Type: Article

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