Silver nanoparticles effects on epididymal sperm in rats

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 251-258

  Gromadzka Ostrowska, Joanna ^a   Dziendzikowska, Katarzyna ^a   Lankoff, Anna ^b,c   Dobrzyńska, Małgorzata ^d   Instanes, Christine ^e   Brunborg, Gunnar ^e   Gajowik, Aneta ^d   Radzikowska, Joanna ^d   Wojewódzka, Maria ^b   Kruszewski, Marcin ^b,f  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^f INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

DNA damage; Epididymis; Intravenous injection

Indexed keywords

SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDIDYMIS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MUTAGENS; PARTICLE SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84867236962     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.08.028     Document Type: Article

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