Infertility in male wistar rats induced by cadmium chloride: Role of ascorbic acid

Journal of Chinese Clinical Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 616-621

  Kini, Rekha D ^a   Nayanatara, Arunkumar K ^a   Ramswamy, C ^a   Pai, Sheila R ^a   Bhat M, Ramesh ^b   Mantur, Venkappa S ^b  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cadmium chloride; Lipid peroxidation; Scorbic acid; Sperm count; Testis

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; LIPID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS WEIGHT; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 77953399722     PISSN: 15629023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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