Testicular gametogenic and steroidogenic activities in chlorpyrifos insecticide-treated rats: A correlation study with testicular oxidative stress and role of antioxidant enzyme defence systems in Sprague-Dawley rats

Andrologia

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 102-115

  Mandal, T K ^a   Das, N S ^a  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzyme defence system; Chlorpyrifos insecticide; Lipid peroxidation; Oxidative stress; Rat testis

Indexed keywords

3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CATALASE; CHLORPYRIFOS; FOLLITROPIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CHLORPYRIFOS; INSECTICIDES; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84857706737     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2010.01110.x     Document Type: Article

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