Anti-apoptotic effects of curcumin on cadmium-induced apoptosis in rat testes

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 122-130

  Aktas, Cevat ^a   Kanter, Mehmet ^b   Erboga, Mustafa ^b   Ozturk, Samil ^b  

^a NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cadmium; curcumin; testes; testosterone; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CURCUMIN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CADMIUM; CURCUMIN; DRUG INTERACTIONS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84859018306     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233711407242     Document Type: Article

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