Immature rat seminal vesicles show histomorphological and ultrastructural alterations following treatment with kisspeptin-10

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ramzan, Faiqah ^a,b   Qureshi, Irfan Z ^b   Ramzan, Muhammad ^c   Ramzan, Muhammad H ^d   Ramzan, Faiza ^b  

^a GOMAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c PESHAWAR MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^d KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KISSPEPTIN 10; KISS1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KISSPEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG HALF LIFE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GOLGI COMPLEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SECRETORY GRANULE; SEMINAL VESICLE; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; SECRETORY VESICLE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GOLGI APPARATUS; KISSPEPTINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SECRETORY VESICLES; SEMINAL VESICLES; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84857989920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-10-18     Document Type: Article

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