Structural alterations in the seminiferous tubules of rats treated with immunosuppressor tacrolimus

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Caneguim, Breno H ^a   Cerri, Paulo S ^b   Spolidório, Luís C ^b   Miraglia, Sandra M ^a   Sasso Cerri, Estela ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE; FORMALDEHYDE; TACROLIMUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TACROLIMUS; TESTIS;

EID: 63549106652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-19     Document Type: Article

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