Preneoplastic and neoplastic changes in the Leydig cells population in mice exposed to low doses of cadmium

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 451-457

  Blanco, Alfonso ^a   Moyano, Rosario ^a   Molina López, Ana M ^a   Blanco, Carmen ^a   Flores Acuña, Rafaela ^a   García Flores, Jose R ^a   Espada, Mercedes ^a   Monterde, Jose G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

cadmium; carcinogenicity; chronic exposition; Leydig cells; mice

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CARCINOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPOSURE; LEYDIG CELL; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TESTIS; VASCULAR LESION; ANIMAL; CARCINOGEN TESTING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; PATHOLOGY; PRECANCER; TESTIS TUMOR; TOXICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956259502     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233710371111     Document Type: Article

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