Correlation Between Duration of Varicocele and Apoptosis in Testicular Tissue in an Experimental Model

Urology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 933-936

  Gürdal, Mesut ^a   Kireççi, Sinan ^a   Huri, Emre ^b   Karaman, Ihsan ^a   Türkeri, Levent ^c  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY VEIN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATIC VEIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS INJURY; VARICOCELE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 52949147090     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.01.060     Document Type: Article

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