Causes, effects and molecular mechanisms of testicular heat stress

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 14-27

  Durairajanayagam, Damayanthi ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^a   Ong, Chloe ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

germ cell apoptosis; male infertility; molecular mechanisms; risk factors; scrotal hyperthermia; sperm DNA damage

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BATH; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BODY POSTURE; CELL MATURATION; CLOTHING; COMPUTER; CORE TEMPERATURE; CRYPTORCHISM; CYCLING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDIDYMIS; FEVER; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HEAT; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REJUVENATION; REVIEW; SAUNA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERM; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; STRESS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TESTIS; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMOREGULATION; VARICOCELE; WATER IMMERSION; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; CYTOLOGY; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BEHAVIOR; DNA DAMAGE; EPIDIDYMIS; GERM CELLS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84920149684     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2014.09.018     Document Type: Review

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