Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease immunoreactivity in germ cells of experimental varicocele-induced rat testes

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 887-892

  Yoon, Sang Pil ^a  

^a Jeju National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Base excision repair; Rat; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; VARICOCELE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DNA-(APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; GERM CELLS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84887151731     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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