Taurine increases testicular function in aged rats by inhibiting oxidative stress and apoptosis

Amino Acids

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1549-1558

  Yang, Jiancheng ^a   Zong, Xiaomeng ^a   Wu, Gaofeng ^a   Lin, Shumei ^a   Feng, Ying ^a   Hu, Jianmin ^a  

^a SHENYANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aged rats; Apoptosis; Increases testicular function; Oxidative stress; Taurine

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CASPASE 3; CYTOCHROME C; FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; RANDOMIZATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TAURINE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84937521060     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-015-1995-0     Document Type: Article

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