Exposure to Silica Nanoparticles Causes Reversible Damage of the Spermatogenic Process in Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Ying ^a   Wang, Na ^a   Yu, Yang ^a   Li, Yang ^a   Li, Yan Bo ^a   Yu, Yong Bo ^a   Zhou, Xian Qing ^a   Sun, Zhi Wei ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CATALASE; FOLLITROPIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALONALDEHYDE; NANOPARTICLE; SILICA NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SEX HORMONE;

ACROSOME; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA DAMAGE; EPIDIDYMIS; EXPOSURE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH TOXICITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL ENERGY METABOLISM DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TOXICITY; WEIGHT GAIN; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MICE; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84903890009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101572     Document Type: Article

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