Vitamin C partially attenuates male reproductive deficits in hyperglycemic rats

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fernandes, Glaura S A ^a,b   Fernandez, Carla D B ^a,b   Campos, Kleber E ^b   Damasceno, Débora C ^b   Anselmo Franci, Janete A ^c   Kempinas, Wilma D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; FOLLITROPIN; GLUTATHIONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STREPTOZOCIN; TESTOSTERONE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; ERYTHROCYTE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STEREOMETRY; TESTIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPERMATOZOON; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; EPIDIDYMIS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SPERMATOZOA; STREPTOZOCIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79960680191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-9-100     Document Type: Article

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