Toxicity of titanium oxide nanoparticles causes functionality and DNA damage in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) sperm in vitro

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 520-533

  Pawar, Kamlesh ^a   Kaul, Gautam ^a  

^a NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

buffalo; DNA damage; sperm chromatin dispersion test; Titanium oxide nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; 5' NUCLEOTIDASE; ACRIDINE ORANGE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL; BUFFALO; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM CHROMATIN DISPERSION TEST; SPERMATOZOON LIFESPAN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER BUFFALO;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MALE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; TITANIUM;

EID: 84903520478     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233712462475     Document Type: Article

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