Effect of dietary zinc deficiency on testes of Wistar rats: Morphometric and cell quantification studies

Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-53

  Kumari, Deepa ^a   Nair, Neena ^a   Bedwal, Ranveer Singh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Reproduction; Spermatogenesis; Testes; Zinc deficiency

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LOSS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SWELLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; GERM CELL; GIANT CELL; GOLGI COMPLEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERSTITIUM; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR SIZE; PACHYTENE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERM; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WISTAR RAT; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALS; DIET; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS; ZINC;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 79952709699     PISSN: 0946672X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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