Testicular toxicity of chlorpyrifos (an organophosphate pesticide) in albino rat

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 439-444

  Joshi, Suresh C ^a   Mathur, R ^a   Gulati, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

chlorpyrifos; rat sperm dynamics; testes

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CHLORPYRIFOS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILITY; INSECTICIDES; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; RATTUS;

EID: 43449098528     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233707080908     Document Type: Article

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