Early Orchiopexy Improves Subsequent Testicular Development and Spermatogenesis in the Experimental Cryptorchid Rat Model

Journal of Urology

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1195-1199

  Mizuno, Kentaro ^a   Hayashi, Yutaro ^a   Kojima, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kurokawa, Satoshi ^a   Sasaki, Shoichi ^a   Kohri, Kenjiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

apoptosis; cryptorchidism; infertility; male; rats; Sprague Dawley; testis

Indexed keywords

FLUTAMIDE;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; FEMALE; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; INJECTION; JAPAN; LIFE; MALE; MATURITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORCHIDOPEXY; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 39149128740     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.10.029     Document Type: Article

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