Comparative assessment of the timing of sexual maturation in male Wistar Han and Sprague-Dawley rats

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 16-24

  Campion, Sarah N ^a   Carvallo, Francisco R ^a   Chapin, Robert E ^a   Nowland, William S ^a   Beauchamp, David ^a   Jamon, Raul ^a   Koitz, Rebecca ^a   Winton, Timothy R ^a   Cappon, Gregg D ^a   Hurtt, Mark E ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Male reproductive system; Sexual maturation; Sperm; Sprague Dawley; Testis; Wistar Han

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; IMMATURITY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TESTIS; WISTAR HANNOVER RAT;

ANIMALS; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERM COUNT; TESTIS;

EID: 84875264870     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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