Chronic stress influences sexual motivation and causes damage to testicular cells in male rats

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 653-663

  Hou, Gonglin ^a   Xiong, Wei ^a   Wang, Mingming ^a   Chen, Xiangming ^b   Yuan, Ti Fei ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chronic Stress; Electron Microscopy; Preference Behavior; Sexual Motivation; Testicular Cells; Testis; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GERM CELL; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS CELL; TESTIS INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHRONIC STRESS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MOTIVATION; TESTICULAR CELLS; TESTIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOTIVATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84895501701     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12416     Document Type: Article

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