Hypoxia-induced apoptosis in the bilateral testes of rats with left-sided varicocele: A new way to think about the varicocele

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 299-305

  Wang, Haifeng ^a   Sun, Yinghao ^a   Wang, Linhui ^a   Xu, Chuanliang ^a   Yang, Qing ^a   Liu, Bing ^a   Liu, Zhiyong ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hypoxia inducible factor; Infertility; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; HIF1A PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GERM CELL; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VARICOCELE; VEIN LIGATION; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPLICATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TESTIS; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; APOPTOSIS; GERM CELLS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 77954902014     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: 19394640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.108.007153     Document Type: Article

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