Cadmium exposure increases susceptibility to testicular autoimmunity in mice

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 652-660

  Ogawa, Yuki ^a,b   Itoh, Masahiro ^a   Hirai, Shuichi ^a   Suna, Shigeru ^c   Naito, Munekazu ^a   Qu, Ning ^a   Terayama, Hayato ^a   Ikeda, Ayumi ^a   Miyaso, Hidenobu ^b   Matsuno, Yoshiharu ^b   Komiyama, Masatoshi ^b   Mori, Chisato ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGAWA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood testis barrier; Cytokine; Inflammation; Pollutant; Testis

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ORCHITIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETE TESTIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TOXICITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CYTOKINES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MICE; ORCHITIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 84878166789     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: 10991263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jat.2713     Document Type: Article

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