Ultrastructural findings in murine seminiferous tubules as a consequence of subchronic vanadium pentoxide inhalation

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 588-592

  Fortoul, Teresa Imelda ^a   Bizarro Nevares, Patricia ^a   Acevedo Nava, Sandra ^a   Piñón Zárate, Gabriela ^a   Rodríguez Lara, Vianey ^a   Colín Barenque, Laura ^b   Mussali Galante, Patricia ^a   Avila Casado, Maria del Carmen ^a   Ávila Costa, Maria Rosa ^b   Saldivar Osorio, Liliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Inhalation; Necrosis; Seminiferous tubules; Sertoli cell; V

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUEL; VANADIUM PENTOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NECROSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TIME FACTORS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 34248596923     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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