Effects of chronic bhang (cannabis) administration on the reproductive system of male mice

Birth Defects Research Part B - Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-205

  Banerjee, Arnab ^a   Singh, Ajit ^a   Srivastava, Puneet ^a   Turner, Helen ^b   Krishna, Amitabh ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU   (United States)

Author keywords

Bhang (cannabis); CB1; CB2 and fAAH; Endocannabinoids; Testes

Indexed keywords

3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID 2 RECEPTOR; CANNABIS; ENDOCANNABINOID; FATTY ACID AMIDASE; GONADORELIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS;

AGING; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BODY WEIGHT; CANNABIS; CELL SURVIVAL; FERTILITY; GENITALIA, MALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

CANNABIS; CANNABIS SATIVA; MUS;

EID: 79959569824     PISSN: 15429733     EISSN: 15429741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrb.20295     Document Type: Article

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