Metabolic syndrome-associated sperm alterations in an experimental rabbit model: Relation with metabolic profile, testis and epididymis gene expression and effect of tamoxifen treatment

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 401, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-24

  Marchiani, Sara ^a   Vignozzi, Linda ^a   Filippi, Sandra ^b   Gurrieri, Bruna ^a   Comeglio, Paolo ^a   Morelli, Annamaria ^a   Danza, Giovanna ^a   Bartolucci, Gianluca ^b   Maggi, Mario ^a   Baldi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Metabolic syndrome; Sperm quality; Tamoxifen; Testis

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 1; CHOLESTEROL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; ESTRADIOL; FIBRONECTIN; PROGESTERONE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUAPORIN 1 GENE; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FIBRONECTIN GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGONADISM; LIPID DIET; MALE INFERTILITY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RABBIT; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 1; COLLAGEN TYPE I; DIET, HIGH-FAT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; RABBITS; SPERMATOZOA; TAMOXIFEN; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84916613053     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2014.11.005     Document Type: Article

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