Effects of food restriction on testis and accessory sex glands in maturing rats

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 687-694

  Rehm, Sabine ^a,b   White, Tacey E ^a   Zahalka, Eias A ^a,c   Stanislaus, Dinesh J ^a   Boyce, Rogely W ^a   Wier, Patrick J ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b BioReliance Corporation ^*  (United States)

^c BioReliance Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Diet; Food restriction; Pachytene spermatocytes; Rats; Testis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; EPIDIDYMIS; FOOD INTAKE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GONAD; GROUPS BY AGE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDIDYMIS; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 49749128791     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: 15331601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192623308320275     Document Type: Article

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