Male reproductive toxicity of sodium arsenite in mice

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 399-403

  Pant, Niraj ^a   Murthy, R C ^a   Srivastava, S P ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Sodium arsenite; Sperm abnormality; Sperm count

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ARSENITE SODIUM; DRINKING WATER; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; IDITOL DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ACCESSORY SEX ORGAN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMIS FAT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ARSENITES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS;

EID: 4444299917     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0960327104ht467oa     Document Type: Article

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