Repetitive exposures to low-dose X-rays attenuate testicular apoptotic cell death in streptozotocin-induced diabetes rats

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 356-364

  Zhao, Hongguang ^a,b   Xu, Songbai ^a   Wang, Zhicheng ^b   Li, Yanbo ^b   Guo, Wei ^b   Lin, Chenghe ^a   Gong, Shouliang ^b   Li, Cai ^a   Wang, Guanjun ^a   Cai, Lu ^a,c  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Center for Radiological Research   (China)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive response; Apoptotic cell death; Diabetes; Low dose radiation; Male germ cells; Streptozotocin induced diabetes

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CASPASE 3; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID PEROXIDE; PROTEIN BAX; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; TESTIS CELL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 3; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; X-RAYS;

RATTUS;

EID: 75349092710     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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