A single, mild, transient scrotal heat stress causes DNA damage, subfertility and impairs formation of blastocysts in mice

Reproduction

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-84

  Paul, Catriona ^a   Murray, Alison A ^b   Spears, Norah ^b   Saunders, Philippa T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO RESORPTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; HEAT STRESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CHROMATIN; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MORULA; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SCROTUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

MUS;

EID: 47249104298     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-08-0036     Document Type: Article

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