Folic acid alleviates oxidative stress and hyperhomocysteinemia involved in testicular dysfunction of hypothyroid rats

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-149

  Ibrahim, Wafaa ^a   Tousson, Ehab ^b   Ali, Ehab M M ^b   Mansour, Mohammed A ^b  

^a TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Tanta University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Folic acid; Homocysteine; Hypothyroidism; Rat; Testes

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; HOMOCYSTEINE; LIOTHYRONINE; MALONALDEHYDE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUTHYROIDISM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 80054100007     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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