Melatonin pretreatment attenuates 2-bromopropane-induced testicular toxicity in rats

Toxicology

Volumn 256, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 75-82

  Huang, Fen ^a   Ning, Huan ^a   Xin, Qian Qian ^a   Huang, Yong ^a   Wang, Hua ^a   Zhang, Zhi Hua ^a   Xu, De Xiang ^a   Ichihara, Gaku ^b   Ye, Dong Qing ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 Bromopropane; Apoptosis; Histopathology; Melatonin; Oxidative stress; Sperm characteristics

Indexed keywords

2 BROMOPROPANE; CASPASE 3; MELATONIN; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPERM; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDIDYMIS; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MELATONIN; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SOLVENTS; SPERM COUNT; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 58149250070     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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