The morphological changes of adult mouse testes after 60Co γ-radiation

Iranian Biomedical Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-42

  Koruji, Morteza ^a   Movahedin, Mansoureh ^a   Mowla, Seyed Javad ^b   Gourabi, Hamid ^c   Arfaee, Ali Jabbary ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

radiation; Morphology; Mouse testis

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; COBALT THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM; GAMMA RADIATION; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTIS EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; MALE; MICE; TESTIS;

MUS;

EID: 38349082514     PISSN: 1028852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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