Exposure of the mouse perinatal testis to radiation leads to hypospermia at sexual maturity

Reproduction

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 487-495

  Forand, A ^a,b,c   Messiaen, S ^a,b,c   Habert, R ^a,b,c   Bernardino Sgherri, Jacqueline ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FETUS RISK; GAMMA RADIATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE STRAIN; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEXUAL MATURATION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 66949136439     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-08-0358     Document Type: Article

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