Morphological alterations and distribution of occludin in rat testes after bilateral vasectomy

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 244-251

  Contuk, Gazi ^a   Orun, Oya ^b   Demiralp Ekşioĝlu, Emel ^b   Ercan, Feriha ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Immunohistochemistry; Occludin; Rat; Testis; Ultrastructure; Vasectomy

Indexed keywords

OCCLUDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL FATE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TETRAPLOIDY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASECTOMY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANELLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; VASECTOMY;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84857654158     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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