Effects of medroxyprogesterone and estradiol on the recovery of spermatogenesis in irradiated rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 4461-4469

  Shetty, Gunapala ^a   Weng, Connie C Y ^a   Bolden Tiller, Olga U ^a   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^b   Handelsman, David J ^c   Meistrich, Marvin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLINE; ESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL THERAPY; IRRADIATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONES; MALE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE 17-ACETATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 4644250104     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2004-0440     Document Type: Article

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