Thymoquinone reestablishes spermatogenesis after testicular injury caused by chronic toluene exposure in rats

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-166

  Kanter, Mehmet ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

eNOS; iNOS; PCNA; testis; thymoquinone; Toluene; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; THYMOQUINONE; TOLUENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS INJURY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BENZOQUINONES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TOLUENE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79952288495     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233710382541     Document Type: Article

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