The effect of chronic exposure with imidacloprid insecticide on fertility in mature male rats

International Journal of Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-16

  Najafi, Golamreza ^a   Razi, Mazdak ^a   Hoshyar, Aref ^b   Shahmohamadloo, Simineh ^a   Feyzi, Sajad ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Razi Metallurgical Research Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Imidacloprid; Spermatogenesis; Testes; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; IMIDACLOPRID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CELL GRANULE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DIARRHEA; EDEMA; GAIT DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPERTROPHY; INTERSTITIUM; LEYDIG CELL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE SPASM; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOSIS; TUNICA ALBUGINEA; VASODILATATION; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 77954674698     PISSN: 2008076X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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