Ameliorative effects of curcumin on the structural parameters of seminiferous tubules and Leydig cells in metronidazole-treated mice: A stereological approach

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 627-633

  Noorafshan, Ali ^a   Karbalay Doust, Saied ^a   Valizadeh, Armita ^b   Aliabadi, Elham ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Curcumin; Leydig cells; Metronidazole; Seminiferous tubules; Stereology

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMINAL EPITHELIUM HEIGHT; INTERSTITIAL TISSUE VOLUME; LEYDIG CELL; LEYDIG CELL AND NUCLEUS VOLUME; LEYDIG CELL NUMBER; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE DIAMETER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE LENGTH; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE VOLUME; STEREOLOGY; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CURCUMIN; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN SIZE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 80053271268     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: 16181433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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