Aminoguanidine improves epididymal sperm parameters in varicocelized rats

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 302-306

  Abbasi, M ^a   Alizadeh, R ^a   Abolhassani, F ^a   Amidi, F ^a   Hassanzadeh, G ^a   Ejtemaei Mehr, S ^a   Dehpour, A R ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Inducible NO synthase inhibitor; Morphology; Motility; Varicocele rat; Vitality

Indexed keywords

AMINOGUANIDINE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERM; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TREATMENT DURATION; VARICOCELE;

ANIMALS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GUANIDINES; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 79955114644     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322154     Document Type: Article

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