Effects of prepubertal exposure to silver nanoparticles on reproductive parameters in adult male wistar rats

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 1023-1032

  Sleiman, Hanan Khaled ^a   Romano, Renata Marino ^b   Oliveira, Claudio Alvarenga De ^c   Romano, Marco Aurelio ^a  

^a State University of Centro Oeste   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; EPIDIDYMIS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STEREOMETRY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTRADIOL; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; MALE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84887839947     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2013.831723     Document Type: Article

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