Effect of growth hormone on testicular dysfunction induced by methotrexate in rats

Andrologia

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 105-110

  Nouri, H Serati ^a   Azarmi, Y ^b   Movahedin, M ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Methotrexate; Rat; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; METHOTREXATE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDIDYMIS; INTERSTITIUM; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 61449145517     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2008.00897.x     Document Type: Article

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