Cadmium toxicity in spermatogenesis and protective effects of L-carnitine in adult male rats

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 216-225

  Yari, Abazar ^a   Asadi, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Bahadoran, Hossein ^a   Dashtnavard, Hossein ^a   Imani, Hossein ^a   Naghii, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cadmium toxicity; L Carnitine; Mature male rat; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CARNITINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FATALITY; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; JOHNSEN SCORE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS DISEASE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EPIDIDYMIS; RANDOMIZATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CARNITINE; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 79952113423     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: 15590720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-009-8577-5     Document Type: Article

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