Morphometric evaluation of seminiferous tubules in aged mice testes after melatonin administration

Cell Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-4

  Mehraein, Fereshteh ^a   Negahdar, Feraidoon ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aged mice; Melatonin; Morphology; Seminiferous tubules

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM LAYER; INTERSTITIUM; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 80054696441     PISSN: 22285806     EISSN: 22285814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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