Acute testicular toxicity induced by melamine alone or a mixture of melamine and cyanuric acid in mice

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Chang, Lingling ^a   She, Ruiping ^a   Ma, Longhuan ^a   You, Hua ^a   Hu, Fengjiao ^a   Wang, Tongtong ^a   Ding, Xiao ^a   Guo, Zhaojie ^a   Soomro, Majid Hussain ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Blood testis barrier; Cyanuric acid; Melamine; Transmission electron microscopy; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

CYANURIC ACID; MELAMINE; TESTOSTERONE; VIMENTIN; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; SERTOLI CELL; TESTICULAR TOXICITY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; EPIDIDYMIS; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TOXICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRIAZINES;

EID: 84896104897     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2014.02.008     Document Type: Article

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