Evaluation of effects of methamphetamine repeated dosing on proliferation and apoptosis of rat germ cells

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 85-91

  Alavi, Seyed Hassan ^a   Taghavi, Mohammad Mohsen ^b   Moallem, Seyed Adel ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b RAFSANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

apoptosis; male reproductive system; methamphetamine; proliferating cell nuclear antigen; proliferation; rat; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; CYCLINE; METHAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NICK END LABELING; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOZOON; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 46249125142     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19396360801952078     Document Type: Article

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