Assessment of the potential reproductive toxicity of long-term exposure of adult male rats to low-dose formaldehyde

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 591-598

  Dangxia Zhou, ^a   Jing Zhang, ^a   Haixu Wang, ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

epididymis; Formaldehyde; male reproduction; oxidative stress; testis

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDIDYMIS; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79960961553     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233710393401     Document Type: Article

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