Effect of in utero and lactational nicotine exposure on the male reproductive tract in peripubertal and adult rats

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 418-423

  Lagunov, Alexander ^a   Anzar, Muhammad ^b   Sadeu, Jean Clair ^a   Khan, Muhammad Irfan Rehman ^b   Bruin, Jennifer E ^a   Woynillowicz, Amanda K ^a   Buhr, Mary ^c   Holloway, Alison C ^a   Foster, Warren G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Nicotine; Reproduction; Testes; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LACTATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS;

EID: 79956345086     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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