Toxoplasma gondii: Reproductive parameters in experimentally infected male rats

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 238-241

  Terpsidis, Konstantinos I ^a   Papazahariadou, Margarita G ^a   Taitzoglou, Ioannis A ^a   Papaioannou, Nikolaos G ^a   Georgiadis, Marios P ^a   Theodoridis, Ioannis Th ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Sperm; Testes; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIDIDYMIS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 60049100253     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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