The effects of chronic ingestion of mercuric chloride on fertility and testosterone levels in male Sprague Dawley rats

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Heath, John C ^a   Abdelmageed, Y ^a   Braden, Tim D ^b   Goyal, Hari O ^a  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURIC CHLORIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; RAT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SURVIVAL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FERTILITY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PREGNANCY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERM COUNT; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84864948643     PISSN: 11107243     EISSN: 11107251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/815186     Document Type: Article

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