Effect of short period vasectomy on FSH, LH, inhibin and testosterone secretions, and sperm motility in adult male rats

Experimental Animals

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-56

  Ren, Longquan ^a,b   Weng, Qiang ^b,c   Kishimoto, Miori ^b   Watanabe, Gen ^a,b   Jaroenporn, Sukanya ^d   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^a,b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Sperm motility; Testis; Vasectomy

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SPERM ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; INHIBIN RELEASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PROSTATE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALS; EPIDIDYMIS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; INHIBINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TIME FACTORS; VASECTOMY;

RATTUS;

EID: 79951871197     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.60.47     Document Type: Article

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